Abstract: Rehabilitation for the elderly is a way to improve the elderly with their ability of daily living and the quality of life,and the Assessment of the ability should be indispensable process to rehabilitation.This paper would introduce the tools that used for evaluating ability of basic activities of daily living(BADL) and ability of instrumental activities of daily living(IADL),as well as how to choose these tools,how to choose facilities for rehabilitation,how to make rehabilitation program,the problems should be pay attention to,the project of exercise and so on.

Key words: the elderly, activities of daily living, assessment, rehabilitation, review