en Original Article <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Background:</strong> Ethical issues are essential components in any piece of research. In fact, they ought to be considered during designing, planning and conducting each research study particularly among the vulnerable. The aim of this paper is to describe and explain some of the ethical issues and challenges faced by a researcher who carried out a research in three Malaysian residential homes.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Materials and Methods:</strong> This paper describes the challenges experienced by a researcher during two pilot studies and a main ethnographic study in three Malaysian residential homes. For this, relevant literatures were explored as well.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Results: </strong>This manuscript is divided into three sections. First, it provides the key definitions. Second, it describes the ethical issues before entering the fields work. And third, it elaborates on the ethical considerations when researcher was making observations and writing field notes, and when the elderly participants were interviewed.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Better understanding of ethical considerations can help researchers to better handle their research and avoid harming others.</span></p> Ethics,Qualitative Research,Aged,Nursing Homes, 121 128 http://johe.rums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-173-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 SZ Tabatabaei seyedzia2003@yahoo.com 22400319475328460011557 22400319475328460011557 Yes Social Determinant of Health Research Center, Dept. of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran. Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences