The elders weren't holding up too well. In fact, it was safe to say that several of them were on death's door. Only the old grandma and one other could still fight and fight they did, holding their ground against the two grand elders from the first family.
As for the other four, they were trying to best to get up, but it was becoming more and more hopeless. What didn't help was that the two grand elders had taken to targeting the four injured ones any chance they got, causing the two that could still stand to had to sacrifice an injury just to keep them from dying.
More and more though, they focused on two of the elders, ignoring the other two. What was worse was that they were the most injured and therefore could barely defend themselves. As such, the grandma and her partner would get more and more injured in each attack that they left them having an opening.