With the socio-economic development, the form of elderly income diversif ies and people's economic and psychological abilit ies of independence enhance as well. However, some of the future elderly, who are going to witness the fastest period of population aging and the period of the largest number of the oldest old, are now in the poverty or at the edge of poverty. In the situat ion, the poverty risk of the two generations would be influenced through informal support. On the other hand, support from elderly themselves or external would be affected in the old age, which means that resources in the old age tend to be deficient. Thus, cont inuity poverty would probably be an important reason for elderly poverty in the future.