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ABSTRACT With the advent of industrialization there has been a significant change in the family system. Joint families disintegrated and small nuclear families emerged where the young couple find no time to look after their old parents. In such families the position of the old has become a crucial factor. In such families the position of the old has become a crucial factor. The senior citizen themselves find it difficult to adjust with the modern ways of living of their young children. In such a situation how the senior citizen in the urban set up are being looked after by the family is worth enquiring. In the desire to be self-relevant. The clashes between generations, distress the old in the cities. Hence, many of the problems facing the urban elderly do not exist in the villages. In the contrast to the rural population the city elderly population is quite different. Many from this group have taken recourse to old Age Homes. Along with the lonely, the helplessness they have differences with their kith and kin perhaps the next generation, which force them to leave their own home and enter the premises of Old Age Homes