The Indian aged population is currently the second largest in the world. Several studies reported that a large number of old men and women badly need health care, social recognition and counseling services to cope up with stress for overcoming death anxiety, sense of isolation, feeling of disability and dependency, low social esteem and lethargic feelings. This study is conducted to determine the effectiveness of planned activities on Quality of Life (QOL) of elderly, residents of an old age home and to assess their opinion about planned activities.  Planned activities, which were conducted for a period of 30 days, include the recreational, play, and communication activities based on the knowledge, skills and interest of the participants. Thirty five inmates of a selected Old Age Home of Dehradun were included in the study.  One group pretest posttest design was adopted and a standardized WHOQOL–BREF questionnaire was used to assess the QOL of study participants before the implementation of planned activities and 30 days after implementation. The QOL score on all four domains (physical, psychological, social and environmental) showed significant increase after implementation of planned activities (Physical QOL from 52.6±19.2 to 62.9±10.9, psychological QOL from 57.2±17.6 to 62.6±11.8, social QOL from 46.5±17.5 to 61.6±8.7 and environmental QOL from 65.9±12.7 to 69.3±9.4). It was observed that as the age was negatively correlated to physical health of elderly. Educational status had positive influence on their QOL score. The environmental QOL of married elderly people was significantly higher than those whose were widow, widower and unmarried.  Most of the participants (80%) felt that the planned activities were overall useful for them, 88.6% felt pleasure and enjoyed during those activities, 71.4% felt that it helped them ventilate their feeling and 83% of the participants wanted to continue those activities regularly. The findings confirm that planned activities were effective for the improvement of QOL of old age home residents. Planned activities need to be introduced in their daily schedule to improve their QOL though further studies can be done on larger sample and multiple settings.