ﻓﺼﻠﻨﺎﻣﻪ ﭘﺮﺳﺘﺎر ي ﺳﺎﻟﻤﻨﺪان دوره اول ﺷﻤﺎره2 زﻣﺴﺘﺎن1393 22 Spiritual well being of elderly people resident in nursing home Jadidi A 1 , Farahaninia M 2 *, Janmohammadi S 3 , Haghani H 4 Abstract Introduction and purpose: Spiritual well-being is one of the most important aspects of health that makes the integration and coordination of all aspects. However, the increasing number of elderly and consequently the institutionalized elderly it is important to paid more attention to their health. This study was conducted to determine spiritual well being of the elderly living in Kahrizak charity. Materials and Methods:: This cross-sectional study was done upon 141 elderly people resident in Kahrizak nursing home that were selected by census to participate in this study. Questionnaires were completed by interview. Spiritual well-being questionnaires of Paloutzian and Ellison used for measuring spiritual well-being and evaluated its relationship with variables of age, sex, marriage, education and duration of resident in nursing home. Findings:The results showed that the spiritual well being of the participants at the intermediate level and above, and the average score of spiritual well being was 96/26 ± 17/93. As the results of ANOVA and independent t-test showed that the spiritual health of the participants is not associated with any of the demographic variables. Conclusion: Most of our participants in this study had an intermediate or high level of the spiritual well-being score. Based on the findings from the current study it is suggest to develop an concise elderly care model considering socio – cultural, scientific elements as well as characteristics of Iranian elderly. Key words: spiritual well being, elderly people, Kahrizak nursing home Received: 2014/01/29 Accepted: 2014/11/6 1. Lecturer, Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery Arak University of Medical Sciences, Markazi, Iran 2. Lecturer, Department of Nursing, School Of Nursing And Midwifery Iran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. (Corresponding Author). Email: m-farahaninia@tums.ac.ir 3 . Lecturer, Department of Nursing, School Of Nursing And Midwifery Iran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Lecturer, School Of Management And Medical Information, Iran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Copyright © 2018 Quarterly Journal of Geriatric Nursing.This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution international 4.0 International License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by /4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material, in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.