Abstract: Abstract: With the intensification of the aging trend, the elderly health management has become an important measure for healthy aging. The elderly health management in communities involves health assessment, classification and treatment. In the assessment stage of elderly health management, social workers play the role of managers and professionals of resource mobilization; in the stage of classification, social workers act as instructors and supporters; in the stage of treatment, social workers function as providers of services and advocates of policies. The paper holds that government should play a leading role in the process of elderly health management, strengthening the construction of social work human resources and broadening social workers’ intervention in the elderly health management.

Key words: social workers, community, health management