Swollen hands and feet does not mean the end of the elderly, the elderly hands and feet swelling may be caused by the following reasons: 1, hypoproteinemia, long-term inability to eat or suffer from diarrhea, tuberculosis, tumors, infections and other chronic wasting disease of the elderly will appear hypoproteinemia, resulting in a decrease in the osmotic pressure of plasma colloid, the water in the vasculature seeps out of the skin caused by edema, by supplementing the plasma albumin can eliminate the edema. 2, cardiac function Insufficiency, acute and chronic heart failure patients will cause peripheral venous blood return obstacles, resulting in blood pooling in the limbs subcutaneous, through diuresis, vasodilatation, enhancement of myocardial contractility and other treatments to eliminate subcutaneous edema. 3, renal insufficiency, renal insufficiency of elderly people will be due to the reduction of glomerular filtration rate caused by oliguria, anuria and generalized edema, hemodialysis can be eliminated by the swelling. Therefore, elderly people with swollen hands and feet does not necessarily mean dying.