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The living arrangements and the support by the elderly family members is the central aspect of joint family system in India. The proximity of children extends all kind of support to the elderly in areas like personal, health, financial, etc., which are upkeep the health and helps in the diminishing of all types of morbidity from the elderly. Dwelling together and sharing the common kitchen, consolation in a reciprocal manner between younger and elderly also provide support to both younger and older generations. The main objective of this paper was to study the living arrangement and received support by the elderly from their children. Nearly 69.8% of the elderly of the respondent have satisfaction of living arrangement to some extent. Nearly half of the respondent (46.6%) prefers to live with their sons. More than half of the elderly (54.4%) are living with their sons. For this study 262 respondents were selected by multistage systematic random sampling method.