With increases in life expectancy and increasing numbers of older patients utilising the acute
setting, attitudes of registered nurses caring for older people may affect the quality of care …

Aims and objectives To establish how common and impactful nursing and healthcare
ageism is and whether proven interventions or prevention methods exist. Background …

Aim: This paper reports the findings of a sub-sample of interviews from a larger study
designed to explore the attitudes of health care workers towards older people in that acute …

Background. The ageing of the United Kingdom (UK) population means that the care of
older people will become an increasingly important part of nurses' remit. However …

The purpose of this study was to investigate nursing students' knowledge of and attitudes
toward older adults in the first and fourth years of a baccalaureate program, following the …

Drawing on a sample of 76 nurses from two health authorities working in acute medical or
acute care of elderly patient wards, a quantitative approach was taken to compare their …

The study reported here sought to describe the differences between nurses' attitudes
towards work with older people in the collective sense and their attitudes towards the …

This study explores communication patterns between nurses and elderly patients in two
different care settings. In a sample of 181 video-taped nursing encounters, involving 47 …

The study was designed to determine the attitudes of health care workers towards the
elderly in acute care settings and to investigate variations in types of interaction between …

The rationale, development and preliminary findings are outlined for the Reactions to
Ageing Questionnaire (RAQ). The first version of the instrument was developed following a …