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This study is done to explore out the social and health concerns particularly in elderly women in rural setting in Tiruppur District, Tamil Nadu.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods:<\/jats:title>\n \n A cross-sectional study was conducted in Dharapuram Block, Tiruppur District by Multistage Random sampling during November 2019\u2013February 2020. About 250 elderly women were interviewed for sociodemographic details, co-morbidities, quality of life (QOL), and health seeking behavior. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square test, and logistic regression were used for analysis.\n P<\/jats:italic>\n < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results:<\/jats:title>\n Mean age of the participants was 65.59 \u00b1 5.92. Only 27.6% were literate. 158 (63.2%) were widow, 43.2% living alone and 65% have more than 2 comorbidities. Majority had vision problem, hearing problem, and hypertension. About 61.2% consumed tobacco and 48% had sleep disturbances. In QOL, overall mean score was poor. Factors like illiteracy, poverty, poor awareness on health services, social factors like loneliness had negative impact on QOL.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n There is a high prevalence of social and health issues in the elderly women associated with poor QOL. 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