摘要：Aging is a personal and a social experience. These experiences can bring gladness or sadness and tedious for one. For making decision and planning for these groups, therefore improve elderly quality of life, we must know their problems exactly. the researchers attempts to carry out a research to investigate the effects of factors like age, gender, marital status, education level, job, income, diseases and taking medications on elderly quality of life. This study is a cross – sectional and descriptive design that was carried out in Lar city. Samples of this study were 275 older adult aged 60 – 86 years were selected with cluster sampling method. Instrument for data collection was LEIPAD questionnaire with two domains (main and facilitative). Data were analyzed in SPSS, version 16. The results indicated that there is a significant difference between overall mean of QOL score with age and income level in both gender (p< 0/05). There is significant difference between overall mean of QOL score of elderly women with educational level, existence chronic disease and drug utilize (p<0/05). There is significant difference between overall mean of QOL score with marital status of elderly men (p<0/05), There is no significant difference observed between overall mean of QOL score with gender and job (p>0/05). results of this study express some variable and factors such as marital status, level of education, chronic disease, drug utilize, age and income affect Quality of elderly life, so strategies should be directed toward such variable mentioned for planning and solving present and further elderly problems.
