Regarding to living of some elderly people due to different causes in nursing house, it's a must to Know affecting factors on mental health of this group. One of these factors is satisfaction with living in nursing house(NH). So we have studied relationship between that and mental health elderly people.

A descriptive-Analytical study with aim-centered sampling was performed on 56 elderly people residing on golabchi nursing house -Kashan 2007 in the event that had research units features (Normal IQ, able to understand the Questions and lack of serious mental disease and Alzheimer).The standard mental health Questionnaire (GHQ28) was used and the scores less than 23 was mentioned as health .some other like demographic factors, family residing in nursing house and …were assessed too. The descriptive statistics and χ2 were used to analyze the data.

There was no significant relationship between mental health with satisfaction with living in nursing house, gender, education, previous job, income source, economic situation, marital status and duration of residing in nursing house, although the rate of satisfaction in health group was 1/6 as unhealthy group and the rate of mental health was increased with increasing in duration of residing.

It may be promoting the rate of satisfaction with living in NH can help elderly people's mental health.