Today, our country is the youngest country in the world, and more than 50 percent of the population is under the age of 20. With birth control, nutrition, health, and life expectancy rising, it is only natural to have the highest percentage of the elderly for the next 50 years. The aim of this study was to compare the resilience, life expectancy and spiritual health of the elderly living in the nursing homes and the ones living at home in Isfahan. The statistical population of this study includes all the elderly people living in nursing homes and those living at home in Isfahan. In this study, 140 elderly people of Isfahan, 70 of whom (35 women, 35 men) were living in a nursing home and 70 of them (35 women, 35 men) living at home, were selected by available sampling method. The measurement tools for this study were the Conradioid Resonance Test, Hertz's Life Expectation, and the Polutosin Wallison Spiritual Health Questionnaire. The research design was causal-comparative. In order to analyze the data, t-test was used for independent groups and the results showed that resilience, life expectancy and spiritual health in the elderly living at home are higher than those living in the nursing home and according to the results obtained from the output data in the t-test, using SPSS software, and concerning significant deviation between the mean and the significance of the study (<0.05) with 95% level of confidence, it could be concluded that resilience, life expectancy, and spiritual health among the elderly living at home is higher. The results of this study suggest that factors related to increased resilience, spiritual health, and life expectancy of this segment of the society, especially the elderly living in nursing homes, be considered in the care of this group.
