The present study was intended to study the quality of life of elderly people living in rural Karnataka. The study subjects consist of population aged 60 years and above residing in the study area. This study involved 441 subjects, out of which 55.3% were males and 44.7% were females, with a mean age of the study subjects was 69.2 ± 6.9 years. 63.9% of the study subjects felt that they enjoy a good quality of life and 72.3% were satisfied with their health The raw scores of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument (WHO-QOL BREF) was transformed into individual scores under the four domains, physical domain, psychological domain, social domain and environmental domain to the scores out of

100 and were assessed to the group, who  scored better and who didn’t among the group. The mean scores of the subjects under the physical domain were 63.18 ± 11.38. Under the psychological domain, the mean score was 63.92 ± 12.01. Social dimension scores were 40.85± 10.24 and the environmental domain scores were 58.01 ± 10.43. The overall mean scores in the physical and psychological domains of the study subjects were higher compared to the social and environmental domains.

Keywords: Elderly population, quality of life, physical domain, psychological domain, social domain, environmental domain