[Suicidality in the elderly: socio-cultural and clinical risk factors]. / Suitsidal'nost' v pozdnem vozraste: sotsiokul'tural'nye i klinicheskie faktory riska.

Advanced age is a significant risk factor for a completed suicide. The review considers the patterns of suicidal behavior of older adults in the context of their gender, ethnicity as well as social and cultural factors. In terms of pro- and antisuicidal variables, special emphasis is made on the role of somatic and psychic disorders. The article looks at the features of committing a suicide peculiar to the older people and debates some specific issues of self-inflicted death by elderly people. The obtained data indicate the involvement of multilevel factors (biological, clinical, cultural, micro- and microsocial) in suicidal behavior in later life.

[The problem of multiple somatic and/or psychiatric pathology basic concepts and prevalence]. / Problema mnozhestvennoi somaticheskoi i/ili psikhicheskoi patologii.

The literature of the last decades shows the growing interest to multiple pathologies in medicine including psychiatry and neurology. Multiple pathology is often determined as multimorbidity or comorbidity. Multiple pathology is a common phenomenon, which is the rule rather than the exception. In the medical care system, it is burden for the patient and for the physician in clinical, organizational and economic aspects. The review addresses all these issues in the aspect of terminology and prevalence.