Abstract Aim To explore the mediating role of depression in older people receiving haemodialysis on social support and the attitude of participants towards death. Design A cross‐sectional questionnaire survey. Methods Data were collected from older people undergoing dialysis (N = 209) at two regional hospitals in the north of Taiwan. Confirmatory factor analysis with structural equation model was used to clarify the strength of relationships and intermediary effects of three scales in which with 5,000 bootstrap samples using LISREL 9.31. Results The final model provided a good fit for the data. Social support and depression have statistically significant effects on dialysis older person' negative death attitudes. The direct effect of social support on depression was the strongest (p
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