This article presents comparative information, gained from mailed questionnaires, on the attitudes, knowledge, and perceptions of clients' needs held by 62 administrators and 57 direct-service personnel working with the aged. Administrators and direct-service workers were remarkably similar on each of these dimensions. Both groups demonstrated positive attitudes toward the aged and a deficit of certain types of factual knowledge about aging. Education was positively related to factual knowledge and favorable attitudes toward the elderly.
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