==== Front Innov Aging Innov Aging innovateage Innovation in Aging 2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 10.1093/geroni/igaa057.643 igaa057.643 Abstracts Session 2892 (Poster) Aging in Place (HS) AcademicSubjects/SOC02600 Factors Related to the Dignity of Older People in Tehran in 2020 Kakhki Ali Darvishpoor Moradoghli Fereshteh Esmaeili Roghayeh Kakhki Ali Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2020 16 12 2020 16 12 2020 4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”199 199 © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract The elderly are the fastest growing segment of the population globally. This is also the case in developing countries such as Iran. The fear of aging and the refusal to accept older adults into the mainstream of society affects the dignity of older people. This study was conducted to describe factors and dignity of older people in Tehran, Iran. This descriptive, correlational study was conducted on a sample of 215 older people above age 60 in 10 public parks in five regions of Tehran in 2020. A socio-demographic questionnaire and patient dignity inventory were used for data collection. Content validity and Cronbach’s alpha were used for evaluating the validity and reliability of questionnaires. Data were analyzed with SPSS. 60% of subjects were male and 40% female with a mean age of 68(± 5.05) year. The mean scores for dignity domains ranged from 67.30 (±17.56) for symptom distress, to 93.01(± 10.90) for dependency on a 100-point scale. The scores of dignity domains were significantly associated with job status, housing status, income source, health insurance, chronic diseases, annual physician referral rates, and hospitalization in last year. The best predictors of dignity were health insurance and annual physician referral rates. The findings of this study showed that the dignity of older people is related to a number of factors. Monitoring modifiable factors such as health insurance and annual physician referral rates and non-modifiable factors such as chronic diseases will help us to preserve or improve the dignity of older people.