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The purpose of this research is to determine the attitudes of the Gerontology Department and the Elderly Care Program students who study on age science and age care and university students who study in different programs at the High School of Health regarding age discrimination. The study group of this research of the defining type consists of a total of 780 students who are trained and taught in other programs at the Department of Gerontology, the Senior Care Program and the Health Services Professional High School. Data collection tools have been used as the student information form and the age discrimination attitude scale form (YATÖ). The data analysis was obtained through the SPSS-23 package program. According to the findings obtained from the study, university students mostly have a positive attitude towards age discrimination and old discrimination attitude scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale sc As the class levels of students increase, the positive discrimination attitude points also increase, especially in the second class, the Gerontology department’s students’ positive attitude towards age discrimination has higher ranking average than the other students, and this difference is statistically significant. This study found that students who are trained and taught in other programs at the Department of Gerontology, the Elderly Care Program and the Health Services Professional High School, their attitudes towards elderly discrimination are mostly in a positive direction.

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