As the world begin to experienced increases in the number of older persons worldwide, it is
also evidently cleared that, startling transformations have occurred all over the world,
particularly on the mode of caring and supporting of older persons.This transformation
affects different people in different ways, depending on sex, location, size of cohort,
economic resources (individual, familial and national), norms inherited from the past and
individual’s live experiences and personality with its attendant consequences for economic
security, especially in most societies of the world where pensions are paid only to a small
proportion of older persons who had worked in the former sectors of the economy. Even in
countries where pensions are more generally available, the burden of an ageing population is
increasingly being regarded as unsustainable. Hence, older persons would have to depend on
the combinations of informal supports for their survival. This study is therefore set out to
examine gender differences in the care, support, overall wellbeing and level of satisfaction
among older persons in Lagos State, Nigeria. Triangulation method was used for data
collection. A multi-stage sampling procedure was adopted to select 1,200 respondentsLogistic regression technique was used to test the hypotheses. The study found that gender of
an individual and personality is an important determinant of care and support received by
older persons in Lagos State. The study concludes that adequate care and support by older
persons in the society would engendered improved wellbeing in later life.