Objectives: the proportion of older adults in the population continues to increase in the developing countries. In addition, in elderly persons decrease quality of life because of several factors such as low physical activity and impairment in mobility. This study was performed to assess the effect of exercise program on the quality of life in Shahrekord elderly people.

Methods & Materials: This quasi-experimental study was conducted older adults in 2007. In this study 60 elderly persons were randomly divided into two groups; experimental (30) with mean age 68.63±6.96 and control (30) with mean age 68.03±10.65. this groups can doing Exercise and Daily activity without Depends to other and without any systematic disease and restrictive. Exercise program was administrated to the individual of experimental group for 60sessions; subsequently using Leipard questionnaire, the level of quality of life was measured in the two groups at the beginning and the end of the study. The data was analyzed, using, chi-square, Manwitny and t tests.

Results: Using exercise program, mean level of quality of life in different were increase statically significant (P<0.05), whereas in the control group these parameters were unchanged.

Conclusion: According to the result of this research that showed using a regular and prolong exercise program, and good acceptance toward geriatrics can increase the level of quality of life in older adult in different dimension, and showed that healthy way of living for them.

Objectives: Caring for aged people is an important part of professional nursing. Some researchers reported that nursing students have a negative attitude towards elderly care and do not like to choose the elderly care settings in their future career. This study aimed to assess the impact of a program of caring for the elderly people on nursing students' attitudes toward the elderly, in Kashan University of Medical Sciences.

Methods & Materials: An interventional study was conducted on 59 fourth year nursing students. 32 students were in the control group and 27 ones in the intervention group. Both groups were initially pre-tested, then the intervention group were placed in a 10-day program for caring of the elderly. One day after the 10th day post test was done in both groups. Kogan’s attitude towards old people (KAOP) questionnaire was used to assess students' attitudes. Data analysis performed using independent sample t-test, paired t test, ANOVA, chi-square and Fisher exact tests in SPSS11.5 software.

Results: In the present study, 40.7% of the samples were male students and 59.3% were female. The mean scores of attitude towards elderly were not significantly different at the beginning of the study (P=0.62). The mean scores of attitude in the intervention group were 118.18 and 119.62 at baseline and at the end respectively (P=0.62). Also, the mean of attitude scores in the control group were 119.4 and 125.37 at baseline and at the end respectively (P=0.01).

Conclusion: Elderly care program had a negative effect on the attitudes of nursing students toward the elderly. The living arrangement and the condition of the hospice perhaps had effect on how changes in the attitudes have occurred. Further studies in this area are suggested.