Attitudes are the foundation of quality care for older adults. Among healthcare professionals, discrimination and stereotypical behavior are widespread, even though these individuals most often do not realize that their actions are ageist. “Ageism prevents people from seeing the potential of aging, from anticipating their own aging, and from being responsive to the needs of older adults” (McGuire, Klein, & Shu-Li, 2008, p. 12). Attitudes are directly correlated with how individuals age and their ability to stay healthy and live longer (McGuire, Klein, & Shu-Li, 2008, p. 12). The care older adults receive from health care professionals is directly influenced by those providers' attitudes toward aging. Too often, health care providers rely on a patient's chronological age rather than their functional age to determine their needs and the interventions they are prescribed. Another problem is that providers view older patients' complaints as part of "normal aging," potentially missing life-threatening problems that could have been easily resolved. “Age is only appropriate in the treatment of health as a secondary factor in medical decision-making, and it should not be used as a stand-alone factor” (Nolan, 2011, p. 334). PhysiciansThe expected hierarchy among health care providers is headed by physicians. The doctor has long been the “expert” on everything relating to the human body, whether it is an illness or an injury. The evolution of technology has brought the World Wide Web to the doorstep of every consumer, which has brought about a slight change in this eternal faith. Older adults continue to retain some of this trust in their doctors because of their tendency not to use the Internet and seek out their own professionals, were significantly more cynical toward and distrustful of older adults” (p. 63 ). Meisner's (2012) findings reveal that physicians demonstrated attitudes toward older patients, including feeling that these individuals were "disengaged and unproductive," while assuming that these characteristics applied to all older patients, whatever the actual abilities of each person (p. 63). Lumping all older adults into a single category defined by disability and dysfunction is detrimental to the well-being of each patient. Chronological age is not the determining factor relating to treatment; Functional age is a better testament to a patient's expected outcomes. It is imperative that doctors understand what “normal aging” is rather than looking for conditions based on symptoms that are only part of this aging process. According to Meisner