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Background: Aging is an inevitable process which has to take place at any costand is experienced by all of us, as a true reality of life. So, this stage of life; is quite pleasurablefor some elderly people whereas for some it becomes miserable. They become more fragileand prone towards diseases which greatly impact their health and limits activities of daily living.This decline increases day by day and becomes a cause of death. Objectives of Study: Toevaluate the relationship of physical activity on quality of life of elderly people. To determinewhether how many of them are still active and to find the reasons that makes an elderly personresponsible for being active or inactive which directly impacts the quality of life of an individual.Design: A Descriptive Cross Sectional survey. Period: It was 6 months of duration from January2014 till June 2014. Setting: A Descriptive Cross Sectional survey was conducted in elderlypopulation. This study was conducted from elderly people living in Rawalpindi, Islamabad.For these OPDs of the hospitals of Rawalpindi, Islamabad had been visited. Methods: Thesample size was 700 elderly individuals including males & females of ages 65 years & above.A structured questionnaire was designed and finalized after peer review. This questionnairewas “The Lawton Instrumental Activities of daily living Scale” that consisted of 15 questions,out of which 7 were close ended questions & 8 questions taken from the scale. Then, thedata had been be analyzed on SPSS-20 software. Results: The results of Lawton’s scale(which measures the level of effectiveness of physical activity) show that out of 700 total elderlypopulations, 564(80.5%) participants are physically active whereas 136 (19.4%) participants arethe ones who are not at all active. Among elderly population of 439 male participant 283(64.4%)of them are active that is they achieved the score 5/5 which is maximum independent scoreas described by Lawton for males. Whereas out of 261female participants 84 (32.2%) of themare independent and active as their score is 8/8. The result regarding diseases of our geriatricpopulation show that 200 (28.6%) of them are the ones having no disease at all. Whereas inthe case of diseased population, 119 (17%) of them are having cardiovascular & Hypertension,128 (18%) among them have the diseases present in combination of two. 76 (10.9%) amongthem are having Arthritis, which cannot be ignored. Conclusion: Physical activity has shownto have extremely positive benefits on health, mind, body & quality of life of an individual. Thesame implies with the elderly population because physical activity is a very powerful tool todelay the degenerative process which inevitably take place in the body. As the process ofaging is delayed, it produces many beneficial effects on almost all the systems of the body.Physical activity is proved to be extremely cardio protective in elders. Delay the disease process& protect them against many harmful effects of aging which would otherwise make elderly bedstrickenfrom the very beginning of aging process in geriatric population.

Background: The enriched learning and effective teaching is one of necessary aspect to develop competent health professionals. In literature number of studies presents the best qualities of an effective teacher. There are different descriptive surveys depicting the rating of student and expert professional opinion. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the top qualities of a good teacher in health sciences. Materials and Study Design: A descriptive cross sectional study. Methods: Setting: Riphah College of rehabilitation sciences. Period: January - February 2014. Methods: 179 students were recruited in sample. A structured questionnaire was prepared and twenty qualities were selected after the detail review of literature. A scale ranging from 1 to 5 were described against each qualities from strongly disagree to strongly agree. Results: The result showed that the top qualities ranked by the students were effective communication skills score 112, encourage students 103, sound knowledge 100 and good presentation skills 99. The lowest score qualities were constructive criticism 28 and sense of humor 53. The 49% students want to be teacher while 51% don't want to be teacher in future. Conclusion: A good teacher has vital role in producing a good student. According to the perception of students a good teacher must have strong and effective communication skill, ability to motivate students and must have sound knowledge of subjects. This study suggests the basic training program for teacher to enhance the student teacher relationship. Further study should be done to explore the teacher's perception of a good teacher.