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Geriatric education remains a crucial area in providing quality of care to older adults. Attitudes toward older adults may play an important role in how students respond to geriatric education and practice. We explored perceptions of older adults among medical, pharmacy, nursing, and physical therapy graduate students using the Images of Aging Questionnaire (Levy, Kasl, & Gill, 2004), an 18-item instrument asking respondents to rate their perceptions of older adults across words like healthy, wrinkled, active, senile, etc. Data were collected once per semester across four semesters (Spring 2017- Spring 2018) on 695 students while the Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) was being implemented. Overall, scores for positive images were significantly higher, and scores for negative items were significantly lower, for nursing and physical therapy students compared to medical and pharmacy students (p’s |
