This document provides information on assessing and preventing late-life suicide. It discusses risk factors like prior suicidal thoughts or behaviors, mental illness, medical illness, and negative life events. Warning signs of suicide risk include suicidal thoughts, plans, substance abuse, purposelessness, anxiety, feeling trapped, and withdrawal. Key questions to ask include whether they have thoughts of suicide, specific plans or means, and reasons to live. Risk management involves immediate safety planning and ongoing treatment of underlying issues, monitoring of risk, and enhancing hope and meaning in life.