PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Badrya H. Alamri
AU  - Lily D. Xiao
TI  - Health professionals’ knowledge and attitudes toward older people in primary care in Saudi Arabia
AID  - 10.15537/smj.2017.3.19293
DP  - 2017 Mar 01
TA  - Saudi Medical Journal
PG  - 229--236
VI  - 38
IP  - 3
4099  - http://smj.org.sa/content/38/3/229.short
4100  - http://smj.org.sa/content/38/3/229.full
SO  - Saudi Med J2017 Mar 01; 38
AB  - Previous international studies have indicated that a range of factors influence knowledge and attitudes toward older people were education, past work experiences, and social contact with healthy older people. This article reports on the findings of a literature review in relation to attitudes toward older people among health professionals working in primary healthcare centers in Saudi Arabia. The findings of this narrative literature are reported through 5 themes: the instruments used in the selected studies to measure attitudes toward older people; the instruments used to measure knowledge on ageing; attitudes toward older people; knowledge of the care of older people; and factors that influence knowledge and attitudes toward older people. Further investigation is needed to identify the level of knowledge on ageing, attitudes toward older people, and the factors which affect health professionals’ knowledge and attitudes toward older people in primary healthcare centers in Saudi Arabia.