Objective: The present study aimsto find out the quality of life among senior citizens in selected urban area of Maharashtra. This study will enable us to understand issues related to the quality of life amongst elderly people and scope for further improvement.

Background: World Health organization (WHO) discusses the four domains of quality of life namelyphysical, psychological, social and environmental. (1)

Material and Method:Atotal of 370 senior citizens,of age 60years and above were randomly selected from an urban area. The sampling method that was used was stratified random sampling. Semi–structured questionnaires were used to collect data regarding the socio–demographic parameters. World Health Organization Quality Of Life (Quality of life) – BREF (henceforth referred to as WHOQOL–BREF) was used to assess the Quality Of Life among senior citizens.

Result:Reliability of WHOQOL–BREF was acceptable ieCronbach›s alpha (internal consistency index) was 0.70.Out of the four domains, the mean of transform score of QOL was maximum in the environmental health and physical health domain (mean:41.21,41.09 respectively) and minimum in the social domain  and psychological domain((mean:37.1, 40.9 respectively) .The quality of life was higher in males than in females in all the four domains. There were statistically significant correlations between the four domains of WHOQOLBREF as well as between the QOL (Q1) and the scores obtained from the different domains.

Conclusions:There was significant association between the WHO four domains and age,gender,marital status ,education and professional status of senior citizens.