The objectives were to compare between the age groups: marital status, education, income, number of morbidities and functional disability scores of a quality of life from elderly women. This is a population-based study, sectional, applied to 1339 elderly women.We used the Older Americans Resources and Services structured instruments, WHOQOL-BREF and WHOQOL-OLD. To the comparison among the categorical variables we used chi-square for the numerical test, ANOVA-F, Tamhane and Bonferroni's according to the homogeneity of variances (p <0.05). The comparison among groups showed that the higher age, the lower is the educational level and larger number of functional disability. The highest age group was associated to lower scores of quality of life in the physical domain and operational facets of the senses and social participation. It is necessary to analyze the characteristics of elderly women considering the specificities of different ages.
Nursing; Women's Health; Aged; Aging
