Objectives: To establish the relationship between (1) the educational orientation and the opinion of the students on the elderly; (2) students' living with the elderly and their opinion of the elderly and (3) the educational orientation and the knowledge of getting older and the old age. Participants and methods: : An average study covering 160 medical high school and grammar school students was carried out. An annonymous questionairre paper divided into three parts was used as a research instrument. The first part was specifically created for this research, the rest were taken from the “Andrija Štampar“ Center for medical gerontology. The categories were demonstrated by absolute and relative frequencies. Discrepancies between variables were tested using Fisher's exact comparative test. Figures are presented by median and interquartile range. The normality of frequency of occurence of numerical variables was tested using Shapiro-Wilk's test. The difference between numerical variables between the two independent groups was tested using Mann Whithey's U test. The rating of the connectivity of the day is Spearman's correlation coefficient R. All P values are two-sided. The level of significance is set at Alpha = 0,05. Results: The results demonstrate that older students have significantly better knowledge of the process of getting old, consequently having more positive attitude of getting old and the older age. Lodging of the students with the elderly does not influence their opinion of the elderly. Students have quite neutral to slightly positive attitude towards the elderly. Conclusion: Based on the results obtained, it may be concluded that the better knowledge of the old age, the better opinion on the process of getting old and the old age students have. Lodging of the students with the elderly does not influence their opinion of the elderly.