Attitudes toward the elderly of 30 four- and five-year-old children who had visited infirm elders in a nursing home setting once a week for one full year were compared to a group of 30 children without this contact. After the visits preschoolers held more negative attitudes toward their own aging and the elderly. The day care and nursing home staffs, however, believed the visits to be of great and long-lasting benefit to children and elders.