Five forty Rural and Urban male and female elderly under the age group of 60-74, 75-84 and 85 & above wererandomly selected from Dharwad Taluka. Data was collected through exploratory and personal interview methods. Personalinformation schedule was used to elicit auxiliary information of the subjects regarding demographic variables. Old-age AdjustmentInventory Scale by Hussain and Kaur (1995) was employed to assess the adjustment pattern of rural and urban elderly. Toexplore the family members attitude towards elderly, Attitude towards old people scale by Kogan (1993) was used. SocioEconomic Status Scale by (Aggarwal et al., 2005) was employed to assess the SES of the family. Differential design was usedto compare the family members’ attitude towards their elderly and correlation research design was employed to know therelationship between family members attitude and adjustment pattern among rural and urban elderly. Results showed that58.50 percent of rural elderly belonged to lower middle SES and 47.40 percent of the urban elderly belonged to upper middleSES. Significant difference was found between urban and rural family members’ attitude towards their male elderly (8.92**).Indicating, attitude of the family member’s of urban male elderly found to be better than that of rural family members’ attitudetowards their male elderly. Similarly attitude of the urban family member’s towards their female elderly found to be better thanthat of their rural female counterparts. With respect to gender no-significant difference was found between rural male andfemale elderly with respect to their family members’ attitude towards them (0.98NS). While significant difference was foundbetween urban male and female elderly (3.59**) with respect to their family members’ attitude. Indicating that, urban familymember’s attitude found to be better towards their male elderly than towards their female elderly. Family members’ attitudehad positive and significant relationship with home adjustment, social adjustment, marital adjustment, financial adjustmentand also overall adjustment, indicating positive the attitude of the family members’ towards their elderly, better is theadjustment of elderly in the areas like home, social, marital, financial and overall adjustment.