Objective: To examine the attitudes of nursing students about the elderly depending on whether they attended the elective course of geriatrics medicine. Methods and respondents:. The examination was conducted in November and December 2022 with nursing students after the geriatrics course 2022/23. academic year at University Department for Health Studies, University of Split (SOZS) and students who are from graduate studies in nursing (1st and 2nd year) and have not taken the geriatrics course. Questionnaires were used: Test - scale on the meaning of your attitude about the elderly person (semantic differential) and Questionnaire on the sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents. Results: For the purposes of creating the empirical part of this paper, a survey was conducted among 100 nursing students and 76 validly filled questionnaires were obtained. The results showed that the level of attitude about the forgetfulness of the elderly is higher in respondents who attended the Geriatrics medicine course compared to those who did not attend the Geriatrics course, and the examination established the presence of a statistically significant difference. Respondents who attended the Geriatrics medicine course to a greater extent believe that older people are slow, and the level of the stated attitude is higher compared to the attitude of respondents who did not attend the course. The examination established the presence of a statistically significant difference in the level of perceived slowness of elderly people with regard to attendance at the Geriatrics medicine course. Also, a higher level of the attitude that elderly people are experienced was found among respondents who attended the Geriatrics course compared to the level of attitude determined among respondents who did not attend Geriatrics medicine. Examining the differences in the other examined attitudes towards the elderly with regard to attending the Geriatrics medicine course did not establish the presence of a statistically significant difference. Conclusions: This research has shown that there are differences in the attitudes towards older people in relation to students who attended the Geriatrics course and those students who did not attend the Geriatrics medicine course, which points to a change in the curriculum of the Geriatrics medicine course with additional content of Gerontology and the performance of student exercises in extra-institutional centers care where healthy, functionally independent and active elderly people are located.