The present study was intended to study the social demographic factors, quality of life, and morbidity pattern of elderly residing in rural areas of Karnataka. This was a community based cross-sectional study and involved 441 subjects. The study subjects consist of population aged 60 years and above residing in the study area. This study involved 441 subjects, out of which 244 (55.3%) were males and 197 (44.7%) were females, with a mean age of the study subjects was 69.2 ± 6.9 years. The highest density of study subjects were from the age group of 65-69 years and the second-highest from the age group of 60-64 years. 71.4% of the elderly were married and had a living spouse and 27.2% were widowed. And 1.4% of the subjects were separated or divorced. More than half of the study subjects were illiterate

(57.1%) and 36.7% of the subjects had done schooling. Almost half of the study subjects (49.4%) were doing agriculture related work and 34.5% of the female subjects were housewives. Most of the elderly had less information about the total family income. 22.6% of the subjects admitted that they don't have any information about the family's total income. Cataract was the most prevalent morbidity, accounting for 56.5% and the second most prevalent was anemia accounted for 55.1%. 39.9% of the subjects had complaints of osteoarthritis (OA) of knee.

Keywords: Geriatric population, elderly population, morbidity profile, socio-demographic parameters.