Elderly heart failure, edema decongested survival time is not fixed, may be a few years or decades, specifically subject to individual differences, can not be generalized. Edema is one of the symptoms of heart failure, if the elderly edema swelling, and the condition is relatively stable, there is also the use of drugs under the guidance of a doctor, such as furosemide, captopril, metoprolol, nitroglycerin, etc., which is conducive to slowing down the development of the disease, improve the patient’s quality of life, prolong the patient’s life. If the patient’s condition is more serious and accompanied by different degrees of dyspnea, reduced exercise tolerance, etc., which seriously affects the patient’s quality of life, the survival time may be shorter. In severe cases, the disease may lead to damage and necrosis of organs all over the body, which may jeopardize the life of the patient. It is recommended that patients follow the doctor’s instructions and standardize the treatment so as to improve the quality of life and prolong the life span.