Chronic diseases such as osteoarthritis, due to a progressive course often are debilitating and affected quality of life for the elderly. Thus, preventive interventions to reduce the risk of progression of osteoarthritis in the elderly is particularly importance, because except the impact on elderly quality of life, will reduce the economic burden on society and family. This study compared the quality of life in elderly with osteoarthritis and healthy one.160 elderly with osteoarthritis (80 active elderly and 80 sedentary elderly) referred to the rheumatology portions of Tehran ShahidBeheshti University hospitals and 160 healthy elderly (80 active elderly and 80 sedentary elderly) voluntarily filled the demographic characteristics, YAL physical activity and 36 questionsthe quality of lifequestionnaires. Multivariate analysis of variance showed that there are significant differences in quality of life dimensions in four groups (active and sedentary healthy elderly and active and sedentary elderly with osteoarthritis (P<0.05).The Bonferroni post hoc test results showed that active healthy elderly significantly had a high quality of life rather than other 3 groups. also the results showed that active elderly with osteoarthritis had a better quality of life rather than sedentary elderly with osteoarthritis and sedentary healthy one and the quality of life in sedentary elderly with osteoarthritis was bad(P<0.05). The results showed that participation in physical activity increase the quality of life in healthy elderly and elderly with osteoarthritis and with training and promoting physical activity can be provided the manner of consistent of elderly with osteoarthritis in this dysfunctionand play an important role in improvement of quality of life and health levelin society.
