COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by a severe acute respiratory virus - coronavirus. At the end of 2019, the disease began to spread from China around the world, and a pandemic was soon declared, which brought with it numerous challenges in people's way of life. The group that is most at risk of developing a severe form of the disease are the elderly due to the large number of changes and comorbidities that aging brings. As a result, most of them adhered to strict measures that limited their usual way of life. The aim of this research is to use an anonymous SF-36 questionnaire to examine the quality of life of older women during a pandemic and to compare these results with those taken before the pandemic. The survey was conducted on 85 respondents, of which 44 respondents from 2019, before the pandemic and 41 respondents from 2022, during the pandemic. The questionnaire used, SF-36, consists of 36 questions that are then converted into points and make up the nine health scales that are components of quality of life. The results were obtained by statistical processing of the results through the Student's t-test for small independent samples at the level of statistical significance P > 0.05. The obtained results are shown in pictures and tables. Based on the results of this research and literature search, it is concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia did not significantly affect the quality of life of all respondents, which are different results than those in most other countries.