Abstract: Objectives: To investigate the status of home medication safety in community and the needs of medication education. Methods: A total of 216 electronic questionnaire was sent to families in communities of Wuhan to investigate the knowledge of medication safety, medication management practice and education needs. Results: 92.13% participants had medication storage; 66.2% participants stored medicine inappropriately; 75.93% participants had expired medicine; 16.20% had the experience to take expired medicine; 100.00% participants discarded expired medicine inappropriately; only 50.00% of the participants took medicine on time; 46.76% and 51.39% participants followed doctors' order or medication instructions to take medicine; 73.61% of the participants needed home medication management education. Conclusion:Risks exist in home medication storage. Hospital-community-family service model should be developed to promote medication safety education, improve correct medication management behavior and community health.