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Title
The negative attitudes of nurses towards older patients in the acute hospital setting: a qualitative descriptive study.
Authors
Higgins, Isabel; Van Der Riet, Pamela; Slater, Lynne; Peek, Carmel
Abstract
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 care setting. The discussion in this paper focuses only on interviews with nurses and their negative attitudes towards older people in their care.