Ethical Considerations in Research with Vulnerable Populations: A Response to Slaughter et al. (2007)

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Question 1.
Identify the vulnerable population presented in your article that require special legal or ethical
research considerations. Explain why they require these special considerations.
Slaughter et al. (2007) in the article entitled “Consent and assent to participate in
research from people with dementia” presents the people who have been suffering from
dementia. The subjects of the research might be termed to be vulnerable people due to the fact
that they might need the help of the various researchers in order to deal with the medical
condition that they might have been facing in their lives. Thus, they might be requiring the
special considerations on the part of the researchers. The special considerations might also be
implemented by the concerned researchers in order to avoid incorrect results of the study.
Question 2.
Identify the ethical issues in conducting research with the identified vulnerable group.
The ethical issues that are related to the conduction of the research with the people
suffering from dementia might lead to the conditions that are related to the various problems that
are related to the recruitment of the concerned people who have been suffering from the
cognitive impairments thereby leading to the conditions wherein the progress of the research
might be hampered. The ethical issues that are associated with the researches on the people with
dementia might also relate to the conditions wherein the concerned respondents might not be
able to provide proper responses thereby leading to the fallacies within the research.
Question 3.
What basic ethical principle(s) is at risk of being jeopardized?