Abstract: On the basis of a questionnaire survey of 800 elderly people in an area of Shanghai concerning their life quality and community service needs, this paper examines the life quality and community service needs of metropolitan elderly people in general in terms of psychological function and social function.The metropolitan elderly people of different ages, educational levels, resident modes and marital status have obvious differences in life quality in terms of both social function and psychological function. Further analysis shows that their community service needs is closely related with their life quality.