Results: While main sources of support perceived are spouses and adult children, local senior centers serve as supplementary source of emotional and instrumental support. Friends, neighbors, religious groups are also mentioned as social support sources. Although the respondents recognize the gap between received and desired emotional and financial support and are stressed by it, they could not identify a strategy to compromise the gap within their life circumstances. Instead, they either justify the gap as part of aging process or deny the need for support. Conclusion: As changes in family structure and economic challenges affect the social support dependency of older adults on their children, social ecological approaches to enhance support capacities from individual to system levels are requested. Local senior center is one example that can be fostered as a social support source in the community. Background: Quality of life (QOL) has been recognized as a meaningful outcome measure when assessing course of illness or evaluating effectiveness of interventions. Whether individuals with dementia can evaluate their own Quality of Life (QOL) has been debated. The debate evolves on whether patient ratings or proxy ratings be used or both? The purpose of this study was to determine concordance between the patient's selfreport on QOL and caregiver's appraisal on QOL of individual with dementia. Method: Sixty family caregivers who were living with and caring for person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and their care recipients participated in the study. The data is part of an ongoing intervention study to enhance resourceful skills in family caregivers. Patients have mild or moderate cognitive impairment. Quality of Life was measured using the 13-item Quality of Life for Alzheimer's Disease (QOL-AD: Logsdon et al, 2002) , developed for both patient and caregivers includes patient's and caregiver's appraisal of patient's physical condition, mood, interpersonal relationships, ability to participate in meaningful activities, finances and an overall assessment of self and life quality as a whole. Overall scores were computed separately for the patient and caregiver reports by summing the 13 items, for a total possible score ranging from 13 to 52, with higher scores indicating higher QOL. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and a single-measure intraclass correlation. Alpha Cronbach's coefficient for proxy QOL and patient's QOL were .71 and .85, respectively.