#sbukconf26 @SJMcDonn challenging services to provide better support for (recently + non-recently) suicide bereaved aged 60+.

#sbukconf26 @SJMcDonn highlighting needs of older adults who have been (recently or non-recently) bereaved by suicide.

#sbukconf26 @SJMcDonn highlighting lack of research into suicide bereavement in age 60+.

#sbukconf26 @SJMcDonn highlighting suicide & suicide bereavement in age 60+.

#sbukconf26 @SJMcDonn highlighting suicide & suicide bereavement in age 60+.

#sbukconf26 @SJMcDonn highlighting suicide & suicide bereavement in age 60+. Vulnerabilities can intensify due to social isolation, physical illness, functional decline, cumulative bereavement + loss, lack of support. Older adults are under-researched + under-serviced.

#sbukconf26 Dr Sharon McDonnell highlighted older adults bereaved by suicide & at risk of suicide: unheard, unseen, unspoken. A quarter of E&W population is age 60+. Stigma an issue, especially as period when suicide was still criminalised is within living memory for some.

#sbukconf26 Johnny Santer campaigns for the Multistorey Car Park Safety Bill, for better designed car parks, to reduce preventable deaths, including suicides. Increased 'edge perimeters', 24hr staffing + retrospective application are the targets of the bill.

Postvention=support + intervention after a suicide to help people + communities heal, to reduce further suicides. #sbukconf26 Nicole Cool spoke of the importance of postvention, some of it informally given, but need more funding for postvention to prevent future related suicides.

At the @SBUK11 Sui Bereavement conference #sbukconf26, Nicole Cool, an Australian postvention specialist, spoke on creating a compassionate postvention ecosystem: coverage, connection, capability, consistency + continuity. People only access help they're aware of + can afford.

The @SBUK11 Suicide Bereavement conference is always educational & sensitively handled. It is attended by a range NHS staff, 3rd sector/voluntary groups, academics, counsellors, people from emergency services, & many with lived experience #sbukconf26

Thanks to everyone who visited our @mashproject & @NCISH_UK stall at the ever informative @SBUK11 Suicide Bereavement conference this week in Liverpool #sbukconf26. Our infographic sheets are also available on our websites, alongside videos + links to our journal papers.

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bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wil… study found 1) eating behaviours should be assessed as routine clinical practice, alongside self-harm risk. 2) Clinicians should note students & people with work, study or physical health problems have raised risk of disordered eating alongside self-harm.