In recent years, with the change of population structure, China's population over the age of 60 has exceeded 260 million. How to make the elderly have medical care has become an important issue related to social stability and development. According to the data of the seventh national census, China's inter provincial floating population is about 124.84 million, of which a large number of elderly people move to different places with their children. Many of these elderly people suffer from basic and chronic diseases and need to go to the hospital outpatient service regularly. However, previously, the relevant policies only had clear provisions on the inter provincial direct reimbursement of hospitalization expenses, and there has been a lack of policy support in the inter provincial and non local direct reimbursement of outpatient expenses. From launching the regional pilot of cross provincial direct settlement of outpatient expenses, to further clarifying the policy to expand the coverage of the pilot, and then to the full coverage of direct settlement of general outpatient expenses for cross provincial and remote medical treatment... This year's government work report stressed the need to "improve the direct settlement method for cross provincial and remote medical treatment, and realize the basic unification of the scope of medical insurance drugs in the country". At present, there are 4.27 million fixed-point pharmacies in the province that can directly settle the expenses of long-distance medical clinics and ordinary retail clinics. In addition, how to make it easier for the elderly to get professional medical care is also a work that the national and local governments have been exploring and promoting. The combination of grass-roots medical resources and pension institutions is an important step. For example, as the first city to step into an aging society, Shanghai is actively exploring the establishment of a health and elderly care service system matching its super large cities, and sending intimate medical and elderly care services to the door of the elderly; Guangdong Province has issued a series of provincial policy documents such as the implementation plan of Guangdong Province on establishing and improving the elderly health service system, which provides support for the development of the combination of medical care and maintenance; Hunan Province promotes the in-depth integration of medical care and maintenance, simplifies the institutional registration process, and encourages social forces to participate... Practice has proved that comprehensively promoting the integrated development of medical care and elderly care services is an important measure to actively deal with the aging of the population, and it is also an effective way to realize that the majority of the elderly have support for the elderly and medical care for the sick. Diversified pension services enable the elderly to "rely on the old", which is a change with the times. The national plan for the development of the cause of aging and the elderly care service system in the 14th five year plan released in February this year proposed that in addition to realizing the direct settlement of outpatient expenses across provinces, the reimbursement scope of chronic disease drugs for the elderly will be expanded, and more chronic disease drugs will be included in the centralized procurement, so as to reduce the drug burden of the elderly. In terms of the combination of medical care and maintenance, it is proposed to enrich the service mode of the combination of medical care and maintenance, increase the service supply of the combination of medical care and maintenance, and improve the service quality of the combination of medical care and maintenance. Enjoying a happy old age is not only the expectation of every elderly person, but also the concern of every family. With the establishment and improvement of diversified and multi-level systems, more security measures will be launched to ensure the physical and mental health of the elderly. (Xinhua News Agency)