Senior women are becoming more likely to use a gun to end their lives, a new study says.
Firearms are the leading method of suicide among seniors 65 and older, especially men, researchers say. In fact, senior men are 13 times more likely to kill themselves with a gun than senior women.
But suicides by gun are increasing rapidly among older women, according to research published Monday in JAMA Network Open.
Guns were involved in nearly 40% of suicides among senior women in 2023, up from about 35% in 2014, researchers report.
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