There may be several factors, which are responsible for the unfortute and pathetic condition of the senior citizens. It can be clearly noticed that over the last few years various factors have been altering our social fabric, and the time-honoured attitudes of respect towards elderly people are slowly and steadily changing. The old people are regarded as redundant and irrelevant. One of the factors of this attitude may be the breaking up of the joint families. Then of course so many people from villages have migrated to towns and cities, where it may not be feasible to accommodate an extra person. And due to inflation people are facing terrible economic hardship, due to which, it is getting nearly impossible to feed an extra mouth. It can also be noticed that individualism characterizes modern generation. So all these factors—urbanization, paucity of space, inflation and individualism may have combined to displace the old people from their pedestral.