A self developed 34-item Likert Scale (6 point) and a socio-demographic profile was used to collect response from the participants. Questionnaire was prepared after extensive review of relevant literature and it was validated by mental health nursing professionals. Socio demographic features include age, gender, educational status, marital status, profession and type of family. Six-point Likert scale includes 34-items covering questions related to attitude of blaming elderly for their abuse (7 items), awareness about different types of abuse of elderly (13 items), attitude of social responsibility related to elder abuse (4 items) and knowledge regarding possible causes of elder abuse (10 items). The response for each item ranges from strongly agree to strongly disagree (6 point). The reliability of the tool was tested by test-retest method and crohnbach alpha was calculated to determine the internal consistency. The reliability was found to be r=0.92 with crohnbach alpha 0.86.