Abstract: The elderly often have a variety of chronic diseases at the same time. The chronic diseases have high prevalence, slow progress and long duration. There are many people with both dementia and disability. So the elderly need full range of health care model (acute care, mid-term care, long-term care). Implement the entire health care for the elderly is also one of the measures that deal with the 2016 national strategy which puts forward "healthy China 2030" and "ensure people's health comprehensively during the whole process". This paper gives an overview of the current care mode of the elderly. It illustrates the problems in the care mode of the elderly in China. And based on the experience of the introduction of foreign advanced model departments in the department of geriatrics of West China Hospital, Sichuan University, this article evaluates how to bring in and localize the advanced ideas and models of care for the elderly, and introduce the Acute Care for the Elderly, the unit of comorbdity management and function promotion in frail senior and the Palliative Care Unite of West China Hospital. So that it is expected to play a certain role in the reform of the care mode of the elderly in China.