Students attitudes towards aging and older people is an important activity for care

24^th World Nursing and Healthcare Conference

September 13-15, 2018 | Copenhagen, Denmark

Mateja Lorber

University of Maribor, Slovenia

Keynote: Adv Practice Nurs

Abstract :

The population is ageing globally and older people are more likely to have chronic diseases and need health services.The steady increase of aging population requires not only more people working on the field of aging but also have to create new services. Attitudes of future healthcare professionals affect on the quality of older people care. There is a problem, that students from medicine, nursing, psychology, and social work frequently have low interest for work with older people. The aim of the study is to examine studentâ?? attitudes towards aging and older people. Kogan Attitude towards Older People scale tool was used for assessing attitudes towards aging and older people. In this research 157 students from one of the three Slovenian universties participated. It was found positive studentsâ?? attitudes (122±11.85 from 204 points) towards aging and older people but only 38% students want to work with older people in the future. We did not find statistically significant differences acording to the gender (t=1.247; p=0.084), year of study (F=1.191; p=0.314) and on the field of study (t=0.461; p=0.641). But it was found, that preference for working with older people positively associated (Ï?2=0.271; p=0.014) with attitudes towards aging and older people. There is a growing need for health care workers committed to working with older people. The most important is the promotion of health care of older people and to find out the factors associated with attitudes towards aging and older people.

Biography :

Mateja Lorber worked for 11 years at University Clinical Centre Maribor. Since 2005 she was employed at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Maribor, Slovenia. She actively participates at international and domestic conferences in nursing and management. She is a Reviewer for journals and books of conference proceedings. She has delivered lectures across foreign universities. The results of her work are published in domestic and foreign journals. She received the highest award of the Association of Nursing Care and Midwifery of Slovenia for successful professional work and contribution for the implementation of programs in nursing.