Elderly heart disease recurrent swelling of the feet indicates the presence of heart failure, can live for how long there is no accurate value, and the severity of the disease, age-related, relatively mild progress of patients with long survival time, severe heart failure combined with a variety of underlying diseases of the patient’s survival time may be greatly affected. Heart failure in elderly patients can lead to recurrent swelling of the feet, leading to heart failure in a number of diseases, different patients with different conditions, survival time will be significantly different. Some patients have heart failure, but the treatment is active, the disease progresses slowly, and they can survive for a long time, for example, heart failure caused by rheumatic heart disease can survive for a long time after valve replacement. Some patients have a variety of underlying diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, etc., how and severe heart failure, the condition is more serious, at any time, acute heart failure episodes may occur, there is a risk of sudden death, in the basis of active treatment, there may still be recurrent episodes, the survival time will be significantly shorter. Patients with heart failure should be treated formally under the guidance of physicians to improve the quality of life and strive to prolong survival time.