Elderly patients with cataracts can receive cataract surgery if they are 80 years old and their internal examinations are all normal. With the improvement of people’s living standard, China has gradually entered an aging society, and more and more elderly cataract patients, need to receive surgery. Some of the patients’ families are particularly worried that the elderly are already over 80 years old and too old to be afraid of the risk of surgery. In fact, as long as the elderly are in very good health and the preoperative medical examination shows that the blood pressure, blood sugar, and all the indicators of heart examination are very normal, these patients can receive surgery. At present, the cataract surgery technology is very advanced ultrasonic cataract extraction IOL implantation, which is a minimally invasive surgery with a small incision and an operation time of about 10 minutes. In medical science, there is no uniform restriction on the maximum age for cataract surgery. As long as the preoperative examination and all indicators of internal medicine are normal, you can receive cataract surgery with confidence.