Heart failure, whether elderly or not, the symptoms of heart failure are the same, including the symptoms of left heart failure and right heart failure, such as chest tightness, shortness of breath, edema and so on. Left heart failure, the patient’s pulmonary circulation stagnation, there will be chest tightness, shortness of breath, initially may be obvious when physical activity, rest gradually reduce, gradually aggravated may be a slight activity that will induce chest tightness, and even at night lying down dyspnea, forced to sit up to alleviate the seriousness of the situation may be seated respiration, wheezing, sweating, coughing up pink foamy sputum, the occurrence of respiratory failure. Right heart failure, the patient’s body circulation stasis, there will be gastrointestinal stasis abdominal distension, loss of appetite, liver stasis swelling and tenderness, in severe cases of ascites, there will be oedema, lower limbs fingertip edema, in severe cases, may spread to the lumbosacral region, and even the whole body oedema, the patient’s nausea and discomfort, and even vomiting, poor mental. Heart failure is a serious heart disease, heart failure occurs or changes in condition, should be immediately cardiology consultation, hospitalization and formal treatment.