Journal of Higher Education Research

It is an important measure to deal with aging, forge ahead in the new era and gather positive energy to conduct education for the elderly in a better manner. Since the reform and opening up, China has made historic achievements in the development of education for the elderly, and formed a relatively complete education system for the elderly in a relatively short period of time, which better meets the spiritual and cultural needs of the elderly. However, we should also see that the regional imbalance and low quality of supply of education for the elderly still exist in China. Based on this and from the perspective of public service equalization, this paper firstly analyzes and sorts out the main problems in the current development of education for the elderly in China, with focuses on the actual situation.The development strategy of elderly education was proposed from aspects of strengthening the basic theoretical research, the development orientation of aged education, strengthening the construction of old school, balanced layout of elderly education resources, strengthening the construction of old education team, diversified supply with hope to further promote the new age old education enterprise innovation and development to provide some ideas for further promoting the innovation and development of education for the elderly in the new era.