Changing Nursing Students' Attitudes About Aging: An Argument For The Successful Aging Paradigm

摘要: Ageism retards recruitment of healthcare professionals to work with older adults. Negative attitudes toward adults were found in surveying four colleges nursing (N = 117). Curriculum enhancements at one the used successful aging as an organizing framework, developed faculty specialists, and required coursework clinical experiences healthy frail Factors relevant compared results a second survey two years later. Seniors' views reflected paradigm generally congruent adults' expressed literature.