Editorial

How can we further the development of nursing research? It goes without saying that there has been a great deal of development in nursing research in recent decades. The phenomenon is worldwide and is reflected in most of the international sci-entific journals that focus on nursing issues. The authors are from all over the world, and the re-search reflects both national attempts to improve the knowledge base for nursing care, as well as attempts to try to understand nursing care in an international perspective. The EU-funded study concerning dementia care, RightTimePlaceCare (RTCP) is an example of this with its focus on a crucial challenge in societies worldwide as pop-ulation grows older, thereby increasing their ris