RESUMO
This cross-sectional study is aimed at describing some demographic, health and social characteristics of elderly attending health centers in Bahrain Of the 22 health center in Bahrain 4 were randomly selected for conducting the study All the elderly attending the selected health centers during the study period [17-28 July 1999] were interviewed by the study group member Total of 201 elderly were included in this study with 106 [53%] males and 95[47%] females 80% of them were young-old [65-75 years] and most of them were illiterate [77,6%] 81,1% were living with their children [with or without the spouse]The prevalence of health problem among elderly was high with 36,3% for Diabetes mellitus, 39.3% for Hypertension and 15,4% for cardiovascular diseases 58,2% had joints problem, 79,1% had visual problems and 39,8% had hearing problems