The population is aging both nationally and internationally. The senior population is the largest consumer of healthcare in the United States. The National Institute on Aging reports that 85% of those over 65 years of age have at least one chronic medical condition and 60% have two or more. Nursing students have demonstrated a lack of interest in caring for elderly clients. This research project aims to identify factors that impact the associate degree nursing students’ intention to work with the elderly population. A quantitative analytical cross-sectional survey research design was employed to determine the association between variables. The constructs of the theory of planned behavior were operationalized using The Willingness to Work with Elderly People Scale to determine their relationship to the associate degree nursing students’ intention to care for the elderly. The instrument demonstrated a significant positive correlation between attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and intention to care for the elderly. Subjective norms had the highest correlation with intention (r = .64, p = .000), (rs = .62, p = .000). The relationship between attitude and intention was less impressive but still moderately positive (r = .58, p = .000), (rs = .59, p = .000). The weakest relationship was between perceived behavioral control and intention (r = .58, p = .000), (rs = .59, p = .000). The demographic variable that demonstrated a weak relationship with intention to care for elderly clients was within the Asian student population (rpb = .17, p = .03). The lowest mean score between all variables is the intention to care for the elderly (16.03 ± 5.8), suggesting a low desire to care for this population. The highest correlation between subjective norms and student intention illustrates faculty influence can potentially impact student work preferences. Future research regarding faculty bias would be impactful. Future research should also include larger samples in various community colleges to improve generalizability.