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Depression is one of the mental and psychological problem among elderly. Depression happened among elderly that unable to accept themselves psychologically. Depression caused big impact in elderly, such as decrease in activity daily living ability, less independent, and decrease in quality of life. Family and environment support affect depression in elderly. The aimed of this research was to investigate the relationship between family and environment support towards depression among elderly. This was an observational analytic study with cross-sectional design. This research was performed in Serangan Residence with 130 respondents. Univariate analysis was performed to describe demographic data, family support, environment support, and depression among elderly. Data was non-normal distribution, Sperman rho was used to performed bivariate analysis. The result showed that there are significant correlation between family, environment support towards psychological well-being with p value < α (0,000 and 0,006). Department of Health Denpasar City as well as Bali Province are expected to share the information about the important of family support and environment support towards elderly psychological well-being in order to maintain and increase elderly well-being. Information sharing can be done directly or indirectly through health promotion program in Public Health Centre.