A retrospective study was carried out including all those patients who, over the last 6 years (n = 257), required admission to our hospital for medical or surgical reasons following attempted suicide. The authors examined a series of clinical and demographic variables. Thirty-eight patients over 65 years of age were compared with 120 patients aged between 30 and 64 years and 99 aged under 30 years. When compared with the other two groups, a significantly higher proportion of elderly patients were widowed and showed affective disorders and concurrent physical illness.

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When this article was originally published in Psychological Medicine it omitted a funding credit in the Acknowledgements section. This section has been updated to include the following: 'This study has also been funded by Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) through the project "PI20/00344" and co-funded by the European Union'.