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Table 1 Groups of organising concepts for searching the literature and their associated database search terms

From: The concept of vulnerability in aged care: a systematic review of argument-based ethics literature

Group 1: vulnerability

Group 2: target population

Group 3: ethics

Vulnerability; vulnerable; fragility; frailty; frail; frailness

Dementia; aged; aging; ageing; elder; elderly; older people; older adult; old people

Ethics; philosophy; bioethics; anthropology; medical anthropology