Journal of North Khorasan

Abstract Background & Objectives: Qualifying the given services to the old people is affected by several factors and one of them is nurses’ attitudes toward the old people and aging phenomena. The aim of this study was to determine the nurses’ attitude to older people and aging phenomenon Materials and Methods:This study started searching wildly in databases such as Pub Med, Google Scholar, Science Direct and Iran Doc by older people, nursing and attitude key words to find related articles and studies about nurses’ attitudes toward the old people and aging phenomena. Then among all the articles, the ones were chosen which were more related to the research subject by the research group members. 30 articles were chosen based on the input criteria and no time limit was included. Findings:Nurses are the effective members of the health care team who are responsible to take care of the old people. So it is important for the nurses to become more familiar with the old people characteristics to be able to take care and meet their needs better. In order to give the better services to seniors, it seems necessary to have got positive attitude about them. The nurses’ attitudes to the old people and the aging phenomena is affected by their personal and religious beliefs, their personal experiences, social culture and the latter one is how much the nurses know about the old people. Conclusion:It is hoped to change the nurses’ attitudes about the seniors by offering them the proper lessons and courses.