In recent years, an aging society and elderly sports research has attached great importance at home and abroad, This paper mainly through the literature material law, and regards the aging society, the elderly sports, healthy aging and active aging as the key words, search over the past 15 years old sports literature, tracing the history of the elderly sports development, comparing elderly sports research status at home and abroad, analyzing from the aspects of research topic and literature quality, and then Sorting out documents.Aimed at the research concerning the elderly sports have a more comprehensive and in-depth interpretation, In order to provide a new breakthrough point and useful reference for the late elderly sports studies, at the same time promote the elderly sports’ development.