Abdominal breathing in the elderly is a form of respiration, which may be caused by physiological or pathological conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cardiac insufficiency, anemia, or other diseases, requiring asthma treatment, improvement of cardiac function, and other treatment measures. 1. Physiological state: abdominal breathing is one of the normal forms of respiration, for adult males, most of the abdominal breathing. Therefore, abdominal breathing in the elderly may be a physiological phenomenon and does not require special treatment. 2. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): The disease may cause abdominal breathing when it leads to chest tightness and dyspnea, which generally requires inhalation of bronchodilators such as tiotropium bromide for asthma treatment. 3. Cardiac insufficiency: cardiac insufficiency can also cause chest tightness, dyspnea, manifested as abdominal breathing, at this time it is often necessary to use furosemide, spironolactone, digoxin and other drugs to improve cardiac function treatment. 4. Severe anemia: when anemia causes dyspnea symptoms, abdominal breathing changes may also occur, at this time there may be a need for blood transfusion, but also need to deal with the cause of anemia. 5. Other causes, such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, diabetic ketoacidosis and many other causes can cause the above performance, the above situation also need to be combined with the specific condition of the intervention. In summary, the elderly abdominal breathing can be seen in a variety of situations, need to be analyzed, if it is caused by pathological reasons, need to consult a doctor in time to identify the causes, targeted treatment.