“…Such space can be an inhabited world with relational conversations where the elderly people's daily lives can unfold (Andersson, Frank, Willman, Sandman, & Hansebo, ; Chang, ), and preceding studies showed that daily stress increased the idea of suicide in the admitted elderly people (Andersson et al, ; Jo, ). Also, in a survey on the expression of cognitive/behavioural disorders and psychological problems, the elderly people admitted to long‐term care hospitals showed the highest scores in severe depression, anxiety, and the repetitive idea of suicide (Kim, Jung, & Lee, ; Palese et al, ). According to the 2012 Department of Statistics report on the causes of death in South Korea, the suicide rate among the elderly people in the country was 42.8 in the 1960s and 103.8 in the 1980s, which were higher than 28.1 per 100 000 people in recent years (Statistics Korea, ).…”