...Tamara Backhouse; Rachel Louise Daly Purpose Research ethics committees (RECs) and ethical standards govern research. To conduct research involving participants, researchers must first gain a favourable opinion on their protocol from a REC. This paper aims to promote researcher reflexivity...

... to question some of the establishing aspects that the VDT® method is based upon, raising concerns about the absence of ethical consideration and supporting empirical evidence. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Ethics Person-centred care...

...Caroline Margaret Swarbrick; Elizabeth Sampson; John Keady Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the ethical and practical dilemmas faced by an experienced researcher in undertaking research with a person with dementia (whom we have called Amy). Amy died shortly after a period...

... and argues that many nurses and other healthcare professionals working with older persons may need to become increasingly proactive to safeguard against the possibility of moral distress. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Moral distress Long‐term care Ethics Role conflict Personnel...