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Dignity and older Europeans: Methodology

Michael Calnan (Department of Social Medicine, Bristol University)
Win Tadd (Department of Geriatric Medicine, Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University)

Quality in Ageing and Older Adults

ISSN: 1471-7794

Article publication date: 1 June 2005

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Abstract

This paper describes the methods used within the Dignity and Older Europeans (DOE) Project and in particular the approach involved in developing the bibliographical database, the philosophical methods used in creating the theoretical model of dignity, together with the empirical methods involved in data collection with older people, health and social care practitioners and the younger and middle‐aged adults, will be described.The paper will attempt to provide the reasoning for the chosen methods and highlight some of the difficulties involved in carrying out comparative cross‐cultural research.

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Calnan, M. and Tadd, W. (2005), "Dignity and older Europeans: Methodology", Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Vol. 6 No. 1, pp. 10-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/14717794200500003

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