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Aging simulations in the health sciences have been used for decades with the aim of sensitizing students to older patients` functional limitations, positively influencing their attitudes toward caring for older patients, and enhancing empathy. As the authors know, a ‘reluctance to treat too many old patients, chronic diseases and dying patients` is among the reasons why medical students who seriously considered general practice (GP) careers in the first place finally decided against this option. Studies investigating students` attitudes toward geriatrics found that characteristics associated with this field (complex, chronically ill patients, long-term care . . .
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