Purpose: To examine the effects of adapted sports program for elderly on their Health-Related　Quality of life (HRQOL).
Methods: Twenty elderly persons were assigned to the intervention group (6 men, 4 women, mean age: 70.6 ± 1.0 yrs) and control group (2 men, 8 women, mean age: 72.2 ± 1.7 yrs). The subjects performed Boccia as the adapted sport program once a week (4 times in total) for the intervention group for one month in the summer. On the first and last day of the program, a questionnaire survey was conducted using the Medical Outcome Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36). After scoring the survey results, we conducted a t-test comparing scores before and after the intervention, and a two-factor analysis of variance of intervention and time.