While we as caregivers can all benefit from experience in providing care to geriatric patients, the vast majority of healthcare organizations include them in their populations served.  This provides the opportunity to train staff in a variety of settings allowing them to use their training and skills to advance in Nursing or other healthcare related field.  I do share some concerns related to the one year of experience, all of us as caregivers are teachers and I hope that we will see more instructors passionate about the role and their students successes.