Abstract:With the parents of “Only Child”generation gradually grew old, the problem of their living alone has become a prominent social issue. In order to solve the problem of numerous existing obstacles such as opening in emergency drug packaging for elderly, by taking one commonly used first aid medicine Danshen Dripping Pill as the starting point, combined with drug packaging examples, various types of possible obstacles in emergency drug packaging for elderly were analyzed from the perspective of accessibility. The barrier-free design for emergency drug packaging for elderly should be conducted in the aspects of packaging and decoration modeling accessibility, packaging opening accessibility, convenient access to drugs, and drug packaging waste recycling. Elderly emergency medicine packaging design should meet the physical needs of the elderly and their spiritual needs as well, with the development direction as humanization, intelligence and green design.