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The purpose of this study was to examine relationship among Dance for All participations, Social support, Health evaluation and Life Expectation of the elderly female, and to provide the basic data to establish the Dance for all participations policy for the promotion of quality of the life of the elderly. Total 150 Korean elderly, Seoul and Gyeonggi-do were sampled as of 2009 as the population, who were aged over 61 and attended the silver town, elder's college, using the purposeful sampling method. For the investigation, we used the questionnaire method. And to construct the contents of the questionnaire, we referred to related previous works and then constructed the relevant questionnaire items after testing the validity and reliability of them. The t-test, linear multiple regression, and path analysis were used for the analysis of the data. The results were as being follows. First, the dance for all participations were partially differences on the social support. Second, the Dance for all participations were partially differences on the health evaluation. Third, the Dance for all participations were partially differences on the Life Expectation. Lastly there was a causal relationship among dance for all participations, social support, health evaluation and Life Expectation.