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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 11 Empty nest Baotou physical health survey of elderly OF: John Wei Liqin Zhao Cheng Liang Meng Lan Fang Xu Bo Sun Li Xie actually [Abstract] Objective: To understand the old empty nest Baotou physical health status, analyze the possible factors. Methods: Stratified cluster sampling method Kun District, Baotou City, Castle Peak District, two areas of the community aged 60 and older than application of WHO recommended people’s quality of life assessment scale and SF-36 questionnaire designed to investigate samples were obtained from 580 cases, 446 cases in which empty nesters. Results: Baotou City, a good quality of life of the empty nest elderly accounted for 23.1 %, moderate 54.0%, 22.9% poor. empty nest elderly physical health by gender, educational level, income, chronic disease and other factors. Conclusion: The female, less educated, lower income, people with chronic diseases the empty nest elderly physical health score is low, the elderly health and community services focus groups, in aged care policy and social security system should take full account of the development of their special difficulties. [Keywords:] empty nest elderly, physical health, SF-36 As social and economic, scientific and cultural development and the improvement of health conditions, making the decline in fertility, mortality is low, leading to the elderly in the community share of the population increasing, this is the trend of social development. Empty Nest elderly population in the elderly are special and important groups, according to statistics, in 2000 the total number of empty nest elderly 4 000 million, accounting for 30% of the elderly population, and there is a rising trend [1]. so empty nest elderly Quality of life is about to enter an aging society and the social state of aging research must be given attention. aging of our population have become increasingly prominent, and the trend was accelerating. empty nest elderly population health i