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Medical advancements have resulted in an increment in life longevity, which has led to an increment in the proportion of aging adults in the worldwide population, especially in the last half of the century, as a result of exceeding medical research. This chapter will argue that such exceeding medical research should always be accompanied by an ethical stance, specifically focusing on aging population. The ethical stance in research serves to, first and foremost, look to safeguard the dignity of those it researches. To protect the dignity is not only a matter pertinent to the research process itself, but also to the conclusion of research, and how it is placed within society and the health system. As a response to these important quandaries, the bioethical realm of research has developed methodologies and guidelines for the design and implementation of research protocols to guarantee the protection of dignity and human rights of all and each population studied.
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Zúñiga-Santamaría, T., Vázquez-García, C.J. (2018). Ethical Issues in Research in Aging. In: García-Peña, C., Gutiérrez-Robledo, L., Pérez-Zepeda, M. (eds) Aging Research - Methodological Issues. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95387-8_16
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