The hospital is famous for its cadres’ health care and geriatric disease treatment, and is trusted by patients for its strict medical style, good medical ethics and advanced medical equipment. Dermatology of the elderly as a professional characteristic and different from other hospitals, in the process of diagnosis and treatment of geriatric dermatology, based on the physiological characteristics of the skin of the elderly and pathological characteristics of the full range of comprehensive consideration and analysis, for different patients, different diseases, different parts of the disease, different stages of disease or seasonal changes, the use of different preventive and therapeutic means, the development of individualized, specialized treatment programs to achieve safe use of drugs, minimally invasive treatment, received significant clinical efficacy and patients and their families praise. Treatment, received significant clinical efficacy and patients and their families praise. Recently, the Department of Dermatology encountered a special case of elderly patients with herpes zoster, the old man accompanied by several family members to the Department of Dermatology of Huadong Hospital, the old man’s herpes occurred in the lumbosacral region and involved the skin of the vulva, the skin appeared in clusters of blisters, redness, swelling, ulceration, and the formation of deep ulcers with a large amount of pus and blood exudate, accompanied by severe nerve pain and urinary incontinence, which is rare in the clinic, and the old man’s pain leads to sleeplessness and misery; urinary incontinence, the old man’s pain leads to sleeplessness and misery. The pain of the old man caused sleepless nights and endless suffering; the urinary incontinence caused difficulties in home care, and the family members were in pain and tired of coping with it. Under the leadership of Prof. Wang Hongwei, the director of the department, the doctors of the department made a group effort to accurately formulate the treatment plan after carefully analyzing and predicting the trend of the disease, and after timely application of antiviral medication and combining with the modern laser treatment, the patient’s skin ulcer was healed, the pain was cleared, and the herpes was completely cured without leaving sequelae such as neuralgia and dysfunction of urination, to which the patient and his family were very grateful. The patient and his family are very grateful for this, and the Department of Dermatology of East China Hospital is highly praised. Elderly dermatology patients are different from other age group patients, not only need to have certain dermatology professional knowledge, but also need to target the service concept of elderly patients, such as elderly patients in the narrative of the disease may be unclear, repeated rambling; in the process of the doctor’s examination, the elderly patients may be slow, and need to be helped by the doctor; in the doctor’s explanation of the condition and medication precautions need to be patient, meticulous and repeated, until the elderly understand the precautions and repeat, and then the patient can understand the precautions and the medication precautions. When the doctor explains the condition and medication precautions, the patient needs to be patient, careful and repeat the precautions many times until the elderly understand the precautions and medication. Only in this way can the elderly patients accurately follow the doctor’s instructions in the whole treatment process and achieve the expected therapeutic effect. The Department of Dermatology of East China Hospital pays attention to the characteristics of geriatric dermatology and the details of the service, and cultivates the good qualities possessed by the doctors who specialize in geriatric dermatology. In the long-term geriatric dermatology diagnosis and treatment work, they have accumulated rich clinical experience in the diagnosis and treatment of intractable dermatitis and eczema, geriatric pruritus, geriatric dermatomycosis, psoriasis, herpes zoster, pre-cancerous lesions of the skin, skin tumors, etc. They have adhered to the excellent service tradition of East China Hospital, preserved the traditional featured treatments and unique homemade preparations, introduced the modern dermatology treatment concepts and means, and carried out a variety of new treatment means, which have changed the dermatological characteristics of the skin. Various new treatment means, changed the old mode of traditional dermatology only relying on medication, greatly improved the level of dermatology treatment, so that many original diseases can not or poor treatment results have been satisfied with the efficacy of the treatment.