Five hundred and forty Rural and Urban male and female elderly under the age group of 60-74, 75-84 and 85 & above were randomly selected from Dharwad Taluka. Data was collected through exploratory and personal interview methods. Personal information schedule was used to elicit auxiliary information of the subjects regarding demographic variables. Old-age Adjustment Inventory Scale by Hussain and Kaur (1995) was employed to assess the adjustment pattern of rural and urban elderly.  To explore the family members attitude towards elderly, Attitudes toward old people scale by Kogan (1993) was used. Socio Economic Status Scale by Aggarwal et al. (2005) was employed to assess the SES of the family. Differential design was used to compare the adjustment pattern among rural and urban elderly and correlation research design was employed to know the relationship between family members attitude towards elderly and adjustment pattern among rural and urban elderly.  Results showed that 58.50 percent of rural elderly belonged to lower middle SES and 47.40 percent of the urban elderly belonged to upper middle SES. Significant difference was found between urban and rural male elderly on health (9.40), home (6.44), social (4.75), marital (5.87), emotional (4.76), financial (6.19) and overall adjustment (6.72) areas.  Urban male elderly showed better adjustment in all the areas as compared to rural male counterparts. Similarly urban female elderly had better adjustment in all the areas than their rural female counterparts. With respect to gender significant difference was found between rural male and female elderly adjustment in the areas of home (2.28), social (2.16) and marital (12.45) respectively. Rural male elderly had better social and marital adjustment, whereas rural female elderly showed better home adjustment. Significant difference was found between urban male and female elderly with respect to their marital adjustment (10.51). Family members’ attitude had positive and significant  relationship with home adjustment, social adjustment, marital adjustment, financial adjustment and also overall adjustment indicating positive the attitude of the family members’ towards their elderly, better is the adjustment of elderly in the areas like home, social, marital, financial and overall adjustment.