Tuberculosis in the elderly is generally curable in the early stages, but treatment is more difficult compared to young people. Tuberculosis is a relatively common clinical respiratory infectious diseases, but also belongs to the chronic disease, is the tuberculosis mycobacterium invasion of lung tissue caused by infectious lesions. Tuberculosis itself can be cured, so the elderly after the harm of tuberculosis, if you can follow the doctor’s advice in the early stages of the disease using appropriate treatment programs to adhere to anti-tuberculosis treatment, effectively kill the body of the tuberculosis mycobacteria, generally can achieve the purpose of curing tuberculosis. At present, the drugs used in the clinical treatment of tuberculosis are rifampicin, pyrazinamide, isoniazid, ethambutol, streptomycin, etc. Patients with tuberculosis need to do a combination of drugs, and the whole regular use of drugs. Elderly people are more prone to gastrointestinal symptoms after taking anti-tuberculosis drugs, and some of them stop taking the drugs. In addition, elderly people are prone to overdose and omission because of more underlying diseases, more types of medications and poorer memory, so they need to be supervised by their family members to help elderly people take the right amount of medications regularly to guarantee the therapeutic effect. Elderly people should have regular medical checkups in order to achieve early detection, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis and reduce the harm of the disease.