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El propósito de la investigación fue describir la calidad de vida y las estrategias de afrontamiento ante los problemas y enfermedades en 194 ancianos. Los resultados muestran que el 63,9% padece alguna enfermedad, principalmente crónico-degenerativa (53,9%). La calidad de vida fue significativamente diferente para los enfermos vs no enfermos (t = -4,38, g.l. = 184, p menor de 0,000), no así para el tipo de enfermedad, problemas reportados, ni para el nivel de afrontamiento. El problema más frecuente, el familiar (33,7%); y el estilo de afrontamiento, orientado a la conducta (54,2%). La composición factorial del cuestionario de afrontamiento arrojó cuatro factores (varianza explicada = 37,49%): activo, confrontativo, de reapreciación positiva y evitativo. Se concluye que la calidad de vida y la enfermedad van ligadas a las formas de afrontar esta últimaThis journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.