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Article History

Received: 28 August 2024

Accepted: 28 January 2025

First Online: 12 February 2025

Declarations

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: Due to residents’ stage of dementia, legal representatives were asked to provide their consent. All care and treatment professionals and all residents’ representatives were individually asked for their written consent to participate. All professionals consented to participation. No data were recorded on the five residents and residents’ representatives who did not consent and refused participation for themselves and their family member. At the start of each observation and each interview, we rechecked informed consent signatures of all residents’ representatives and all professionals participating at that moment. Storage of all data was performed in accordance with the data management regulations of the Radboud university medical centre.This study was conducted according to the guidelines of the declaration of Helsinki. The Medical Ethics Review Committee concluded that our research was not subjected to the requirements of Medical Research (Human Subjects) Act (file nr. 2021–13285), dated 18th November 2021. ( Wet medisch-wetenschappelijk onderzoek met mensen).All potential participants of this project were carefully informed beforehand in several meetings and by a written information letter. Due to residents’ stage of dementia, legal representatives were asked to provide their consent. All working professionals and all residents’ representatives were individually asked for their written consent to participate.All professionals consented to their participation. No data were recorded on the five residents and residents’ representatives who did not consent and refused participation for themselves and their family member.

: All authors certify that they have participated in the work to take public responsibility for the content, including participation in the concept, design, analysis, writing, or revision of the manuscript. Furthermore, each author certifies that this material or similar material has not been and will not be submitted to or published in any other publication before its appearance in BMC Health Services Research: Quality and safety of care in nursing home and care home settings. Approval of the version of the manuscript to be published: H. van der Weide, M.H. Lovink. D.L. Gerritsen, K.G. Luijkx. Consent for publication on identifying images or other personal or clinical details of participants: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.