... and openness about applying agreed ethical protocols in practice. Design/methodology/approach Using examples from qualitative fieldwork in two care home studies, the authors critically reflect on the issues encountered when applying ethics committee agreed protocols in real-world situations. Findings...

...Paula Hyde; Diane Burns; Anne Killett; Andrea Kenkmann; Fiona Poland; Richard Gray Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose five organisational factors associated with abuse, neglect and/or loss of dignity of older people resident in care homes. It derives from one set of findings from...

...Jan Reed; David Stanley This paper reports on a seminar organised as part of an ESRC‐funded series on older people and care homes that focused on the period of transition into a care home and the experiences of older people immediately before and after they made the move. The papers presented...

...Diane Seddon; Kate Jones; Mari Boyle This article presents the key findings from a collaborative study about the experiences and support needs of carers whose relatives are admitted into a nursing or residential care home. Drawing upon data from carers' qualitative accounts, it considers carers...