evidence: Lives in the Street – Challenges, Abuse, and Protection of Street Elders in Sri Lanka. [...] Aging is marked remarkable changes in peoples’ lives since it is encountered with a huge number of issues such loneliness, lack of income, medical issues, with the decline of their physical strength. In world perspective Zoyza,T.D (2014) states that: one out of every ten person in the world today belongs to the category of older people. In another perspective, rapidly growth aging population badly created social, economic, and cultural issues. This study has attempted to focus the challenges, abuse, and protection of the lives of elders who are begging in the streets. Main research problem of this study was "Being economically inactive pushes elders to street life? Three main research objectives were formulated in line with the main research problem of this study. To identify the purposes for begging in the streets, to identify main challenges street elders are facing present. To identify the ways that they abuse in the street lives were major research objectives. Study, within an exploratory background Case studies were descriptively analyzed in a qualitative research design. Study population were purposely selected as street elders above 60 years 15 males and 35 females respectively around in Nugegoda,Kelaniya and Bellanwila geographical area.