Growing older is the process of ageing and it is not faced with equal success by all individuals. Quality of lifeis often described as a standard of health, comfort, happiness and how one person perceives it is different from another person. Hence assessment of quality of life is important indicative of poor or successful aging process.The present study aims to assess the quality of life among elderly. The sample of the study is 400 elderly people living in the randomly selected wards of Tirupati. Interview schedule was designed to assess quality of life among elderly. Test- retest reliability of the tool is 0.82. Results revealed that 17.5% of the elderly had poor quality of life, 62% had moderate and only 20.5 % felt that their quality of life is good. Elderly with education,living with spouse and others, financially independent and who are not suffering with any kind of chronic illness had obtained higher mean scores on quality of life