The Institutional Care of Children. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Background: The loss of a loved one to suicide can be a devastating experience that can have negative long-term effects on the social life and physical and mental health of the bereaved person Worldwide, an estimated 237 million older adults have experienced suicide bereavement As assumed in critical psychology, “the conduct of everyday life” reflects the social self-understanding by which people actively organize their lives based on their personal concerns, negotiation with co-participants in various action contexts, and their life interests Bereaved people may change their social self-understanding as they adjust to their new roles and relationships in everyday life The aim of this study was to investigate how older adults bereaved by suicide conducted their everyday life during the first 5 years after the loss of a loved one Methods: This was a semi-structured qualitative interview study carried out by a research team consisting of co-researchers (older adults aged ≥60 years and bereaved by suicide), health care professionals, and researchers The team conducted 15 semi-structured interviews with 20 older adults bereaved by suicide The interviews were audio-recorded and verbatim transcribed The participants’ mean age was 676 (range 61–79) years at the time of the loss Data were thematically analyzed through a “conduct of everyday life” theoretical perspective Results: We constructed a central theme “the broken notion of late-life living” in that late-life would no longer be as the participants had imagined They struggled with their understanding of themselves and other people in social communities when they pursued their concerns adjusting to their broken notions of late-life living We construed three primary concerns: 1) seeking meaning in the suicide, 2) keeping the memory of the deceased alive, and 3) regaining life despite the loss Conclusion: The participants’ bereavement process was influenced by their stage in life They perceived themselves as having reduced possibilities to restore their life project and limited time to re-orient their life Other age-related factors influenced their possibilities to pursue their concerns in order to adjust to their new life conditions

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Older Adults' Conduct of Everyday Life After Bereavement by Suicide: A Qualitative Study.

INTRODUCTION
Losing a family member to suicide is a traumatic experience which included guilt and self-stigma. Yet, there is lack of data synthesis on survivors' experience.


AIM
A meta-synthesis of qualitative data on the interpretation of loss in suicide-bereaved family members, their coping strategies and the effects on family.


METHOD
A meta-ethnographic synthesis following a systematic literature search and evaluation of the methodological quality of the selected studies was applied.


RESULTS
The narratives of 326 individuals (parents/siblings/children/spouses) reported in sixteen studies were analyzed. Trying to achieve a balance between keeping alive a non-traumatizing memory of the deceased, destigmatizing and liberating themselves from self-blame, self-criticism and guilt while being able to transform this experience into support towards others in need, was identified as the essence of the experience of the bereaved.


DISCUSSION
Although suicide within a family is a traumatic experience, spiritual and existential implications among the bereaved have been reported; their coping mechanisms mediate the impact of suicide on family sustainability.


IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE
Nursing interventions to facilitate adoption of coping strategies centered on keeping a non-traumatizing memory of the deceased among the bereaved and promote their participation in self-help groups and activities to support others in need are important.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/jpm.12866

Trying to keep alive a non-traumatizing memory of the deceased: A meta-synthesis on the interpretation of loss in suicide-bereaved family members, their coping strategies and the effects on them.

Bereavement by suicide for people in later life is significantly under-researched. Research on ageing and suicide has yet to address the experiences of those bereaved by suicide and how such a devastating loss affects the ageing experience. Objectives: We explored the substantive issues involved in bereavement by suicide and its impact on later life. Methods: This was a co-produced qualitative study. Peer researchers with lived experience conducted in-depth interviews with twenty-four people aged 60–92 years. A phenomenological approach informed the data analysis. Main Findings: Themes described included (1) moral injury and trauma; (2) the rippling effect on wider family and networks; (3) transitions and adaptations of bereaved people and how their ‘living experience’ impacted on ageing. Conclusions: It is important to understand how individual experiences of suicide intersect with ageing and the significance of targeted assessment and intervention for those bereaved by suicide in ageing policies and support.

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“It’s a Living Experience”: Bereavement by Suicide in Later Life

In this paper, I explore the concept conduct of everyday life, namely routines and real life, as they are confronted with empirical observations. The observations are from a study of changes in the conduct of everyday life for individuals who attended a patient education course. The course was a part of their treatment after a hospitalisation with depression in a psychiatric ward. I use analysis of the main individual, Steven’s, conduct of everyday life and illustrate my points with models of conduct of everyday life made using beads. The conceptualisation of conduct of everyday life is expanded through three points. Firstly, cyclic routines can matter and fulfill life, which can support the ongoing discussion about the concept conduct of everyday life. Secondly, I show that, from a first person perspective, what matters in conduct of everyday life is more complex than what is possible to grasp analytically through a dualistic opposition between cyclic everyday conduct and the particular meaningful conduct of everyday life. Thirdly, I expand on the notion of timeouts/breaks as solely something that lifts us out of mundane everyday life. I conclude that it makes a more comprehensive analysis to perceive all conduct of everyday life as having profound personal meaning and to analyse the individuals' concerns in relation to their social self-understanding and localisation at a certain time.

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Routines and Concerns in Conduct of Everyday Life

Suicide is a major public health problem and there is a paucity of knowledge about the particular needs of people bereaved by suicide late in life This study protocol describes a co-operative inqu

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Psychosocial Rehabilitation of Elderly Persons Bereaved by Suicide: A Co-operative Inquiry Study Protocol.

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Older Adults' Conduct of Everyday Life After Bereavement by Suicide: A Qualitative Study.

Psychosocial Rehabilitation of Elderly Persons Bereaved by Suicide: A Co-operative Inquiry Study Protocol.