.... Older people are highly represented among those defined as adults at risk and have the right to participate in decisions about their lives. However, contextual factors can impact participatory parity, and participation can be tokenistic. Drawing on the author’s practice experience, this paper aims...

... for “negotiating meaning” with participants of a research study was raised in a previous article by Doyle (2017) , who described the processes undertaken by the researcher to achieve what was termed a “fusion of horisons” in research (Doyle, 2017). A “fusion of horisons” was achieved when, through a period...

... hermeneutic phenomenological methodology provided strategies for enabling a researcher to shift his or her understanding to be closer to that of the older adult receiving care, to better understand the experience of receiving care from the perspective of a recipient. Older adults participated in research...

... being members of the research team. Findings ASP work can support or undermine an adult's strengths, skills and sense of self, depending on the way it is performed. Three inter‐locking themes are presented to illustrate this finding. First, participants thought it might be intimidating...