Suicidality in geriatric borderline personality disorder: Clinical approaches and management

Asignificant complication of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a range of selfdamaging suicidal behaviors, including deliberate non-suicidal self-harm, suicide attempts, and deaths by suicide. This chapter discusses suicidality in the geriatric BPD population. The authors review the dynamics and clinical presentation of suicidality in this group, and summarize the clinical approaches to assessment and management of these patients, particularly in institutional settings.