Background: Nurses have one of the professions that assume a leading role as providers of care for older adults and can influence the quality of their care that is dependent on their attitudes toward older adults (Nevill, 2015). Aim: to identify the nurses' attitudes toward the older adults as well as to suggest nursing intervention guidelines according to the study results. Subjects: the subjects were 120 nurses at the main Assiut university hospital departments who had work experience more than two years in the area. Results: majority of the studied sample (93.3%) showed negative attitudes regarding older adults, (86.6%) of them that had negative attitudes toward older adults were female and more than half of them (53.6%) addressed teaching course regarding gerontological nursing. Conclusion: there were not significantly statistical difference concerning relation between nurses' attitudes and their demographic data and obtaining gerontological nursing course. Recommendation: Promote the positive nursing students' views of aging in curriculum development as addressing the positive aspects of aging, learn how to communicate successfully with the older adults with heighten their awareness about the complexity of care with these populations, understanding the realities of aging and get rid of the common misconceptions.
Key words: Older adults, attitudes, nurses, guidelines.