As the percentage of the world’s elder population continues to increase, the most serious problems that becoming epidemic in the world are behavior and mental derangements. These problems are growing in developing countries especially in Iran. So it seems that doing exercises and physical activities are one of the effective factors and solutions that should be taken under consideration in order to increase the level of general health. Therefore goal of this study is surveying the situation of active and inactive elder men’s general health level in Isfahan city. This study has an expose facto method and for these purpose, 95 elder men upper than 55 years old were chosen from Isfahan Rajae Park’s randomly as statistical sample. They divided into two elder groups by their physical activities, ' active elder' and 'inactive elder'. We use of general health standard 28 questions questionnaire as our Instrument in this study. Findings show that active elder have a lower grade in all four scales: physical sign, agitation sign and sleeping derangement, derangement signs in social behaviors and disappointment sings( active elder: 3.25, 4.40, 6.19, 2.10), than inactive elder (4.39, 5.60, 6.60, 3.36). Thus we can say general condition of active elder was better than inactive elder. Exercises and physical activities have positive effect because by exercising their mind become far away from problems and failures of life. So it is ordinary that reputation of exercising and being far from negative opinions could have positive mental affect and progress to other aspect of life. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to elder’s physical activities. Also, it is suggested that the related society who are in charge of elderly affairs make appropriate exercise facilities for older people in order to increase the level of health status among senior society.
