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Abstract
The present study aims to know the changing pattern of elderly care in families in Trivandrum District. Elderly care is necessry for existing structure of social support and the nature of extent in the family relations. Traditionallly family is the single most importance of support for elderly care in Trivandrum district. 200 samples selected in this study. The researcher using simple random sampling method. Questionnaire method was used to collect the necessary data. The statistical test used for t-test and F-test. The objective of the study was used to examine the changing pattern of elderly care families based on socio demographic variables. Result shows that the most of them female respondents have high level changing elderly care in their families. Further it is most of them 60 to 70 years age group have high elderly care in the changing pattern families. Therefore, it is concluded that researcher shows that most of the elderly care were female and married, widowed. Mainly the age range of elderly was 50-70 years. The main reason was to move the elderly care families home to follow by no care to care at home.