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Nurses are central to providing frontline care and services to older people. With the rapidly changing demographics of the Irish population and the paradigm shifts in the way healthcare services are being delivered, it is imperative that nurses working with older people wherever they access health services are competent to provide the highest quality of nursing care (Baumbusch et al.2012). Therefore, nurse education and curricula need to be responsive to the diverse and holistic needs of older people and changing care environments. This research project aimed to determine the knowledge, skills and competence required to produce a nursing workforce that can provide quality person-centred care to older people wherever they access healthcare and in doing so, develop an educational framework that will enable nurses to acquire and maintain the necessary knowledge, skills and competence, at the appropriate level to deliver quality person-centred care to older people, throughout the Irish Health Service.