When the elderly are running out of time, they may experience symptoms such as impaired consciousness, difficulty breathing, and incontinence. There are individual differences. Elderly people gradually become apathetic, drowsy, unresponsive to the outside world and unable to recognize family members. And due to swallowing difficulties lead to a decline in food intake, gradually into the liquid food, to the end of the inability to eat to rely on the infusion of nutritional fluids to maintain. Difficulty in breathing, gradual decrease in oxygen saturation, and finally respiratory arrest. Incontinence is caused by complete relaxation of the anal sphincter. In addition, with the functional failure of various organs in elderly patients, mainly respiratory failure and heart failure. Terminally ill patients present with dyspnea and stridor, which can be treated by endotracheal intubation. Heart failure patients are treated with cardiotonic diuretics. Elderly patients have slower blood circulation, resulting in lower skin temperature throughout the body, pallor and lack of luster or even purple spots. It is recommended that patients with the above conditions be accompanied by family members to seek timely medical treatment and actively cooperate with the treatment under the guidance of the doctor.