Deprivation and exclusion are one of the common phenomena in almost all-ageing societies. The elderly in the developing countries also suffer from chronic deprivation and poverty as socio-economic relations change. Studies on the livelihood pattern of the aged in Africa show that poverty among the elderly is one of the challenges in the new millennium (Williams, 2003). In Africa, poverty among the elderly is more acute in the areas where the younger population is affected by the spreading of AIDS that create the intergenerational balances within the population and thus results in chronic poverty among the elderly and highlights the.
