Abstract: Based on the two main themes of the 64th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) in 2017—"Exercise is Medicine" (EIM) and the Basic Science of Exercise and the Brain, and taking the meeting reports and papers as an example, this paper summarizes the research progress of exercise and elderly health promotion from three aspects: exercise and elderly brain function and cognition, exercise and elderly balance and coordination ability, and elderly life style and health. A large number of studies have demonstrated that exercise can effectively improve the neurological remodeling, cognitive and balance ability of the elderly, and there are various suggestions on ways of doing exercise. Aging has been a global concern, and China has the biggest aging population, therefore, the health of the elderly not only affects the quality of their life, is also a social problem. These frontier results and hotspots provide a reference for the research of elderly health science, and the applied research also provides new ideas for elderly health promotion, serving the national strategy of "Health China 2030"

Key words: ACSM, the elderly, brain function and cognition, balance and coordination ability, life style, health promotion