Background: There is high prevalence of depression in elderly Taiwanese, affecting their quality of life. Purposes: To understand the degree of Taiwan's elderly depression, active aging and their influencing factors Methods: This study used a cross - sectional study designed to survey Eastern community elderly in Hsinchu City, Taiwan. Research questionnaires are used Taiwanese Depression Scale and Active Aging Scale, in community care for the elderly station received a total of 240 cases, the use of SPSS Statistics 21.0 version, to describe statistical methods, mean, standard deviation, t test, one-way analysis of variance. Results: These results showed that the measuring degree of depression for elderly: gender, the living, marital status, age, activity patterns and income level of depression had significant differences. Higher degree of depression in women (women 1.84 ± .67＞ men 1.50 ± .57); solitary had higher degree of depression than inmates with family or friends (solitary 4.67 ± .43＞ and relatives live 3.60 ±. 67); widowed, divorced or unmarried, had higher the degree of depression than the married (emotional level: widowed 1.93 ± .75＞ married 1.17 ± .24; body level: divorced unmarried 2.24 ± .85＞ married 2.00 ± .83); The most depression was over the age of 81 (81 years of age 1.87 ± .53＞ 65-70 years of age 1.50 ± .58).There is no movement of labor had highest level of depression(emotional level: there is no movement of labor 1.98 ±. 76＞ no movement 1.73 ± .69; cognitive level: there is no movement of labor 2.15 ± .73＞ no movement 2.00 ± .69); economic deprivation of elderly likely to have depression tendencies. In the results of active aging scale showed that elderly who had movement, religious, have income will more active. Conclusions/Implications for Practice: The results of this study can be used as community health nurses in community health promotion for the elderly of reference in the future.