Abstract: The "Healthy China" strategy provides an important historical opportunity for the development of sports for the elderly. At present, there are still problems in the elderly sports such as weak consciousness, lack of management, insufficient capital investment and unbalanced development. In order to improve the development of sports for the elderly, new development concepts should be the guidelines; methods such as building a social support security system; increasing funding; rational planning and deepening the reform of sports systems help to achieve the goal.