A pre-experimental study with one group pretest posttest design was conducted to assess the effectiveness of Video assisted teaching programme on selected strategies to improve health related quality of life of elderly residing in selected old age homes at Hyderabad, Telangana. Non probability convenient sampling technique was used to select 40 Elderly. The mean percentage of overall knowledge score in the pretest was 29 (72.5%) with standard deviation of 3.112 and 34 (85%) in the post test with standard deviation of 3.817. The obtainedt value 21.88 is greater than the table value 2.05 and found to be highly significant at the level of p<0.05. So it is evident that the Video assisted teaching programme was effective in increasing the knowledge level of Elderly on selected health strategies. There was significant association between posttest knowledge scores with education and average sleep per day of demographic variables of elderly.