Abstract: Objective: To summarize the importance of health education for elderly fracture patients with diabetes in the process of nursing care, and to improve the nursing science popularization education level, enable patients to reduce pain, reduce the occurrence and prevent complications. Methods: The health problems of elderly fracture patients with diabetes during perioperative period including poor wound healing, pressure ulcers, pulmonary infection, the lack of knowledge of medication and unreasonably healthy diet were reviewed and a set of effective science education program was summarized. The education program was applied to 50 patients with age over 70 years old with fracture complicated with diabetes. Patients and their families learned diabetes and fracture related disease and nursing knowledge, and they also learned self-care, thus to establish a healthy lifestyle habits, including diet, activity and function exercise. Results: of all the patients, 47 patients recovered well through the postoperative period with zoro serious complications which included hypoglycemia, diabetes ketoacidosis, deep vein thrombosis,pressure ulcer, infection and dislocation of the hip. During the programme, the patients or their families realized their own health status, living habits, and the rate of cognition to their disease is obviously improved, thus the complications were significantly lower. Conclusions: The process of nursing education can improve the ability of daily life, reduce the complications, improve the quality of life and improve the achievement ratio of operation.