They may spend part of their life in long-term care facility. It is sugested that the number of elderly to be intitutionalized in the future will be in direct proportion to the increasingly large cohort of old people (Chappell, Strain, & Blandford, 1986). The question that arises is whether or not institutionalized elder are given equal opportunity to maintain all their rights and privilegees especcially in making decisions about participation or nonparticition in leisure activities?