Abstract: Objective: To study the sleep quality and factors affecting on the retired veteran. Methods: The status of sleep quality epidemiology investigation was made on the 936 cases whose age is not tess than 60 in Fuzhou city. questionnaire and health checkup were used to acquire the statistics. SPSS software was used for statistical analysis. Results: ①In the 936 cases, the 291cases（31.09%） had bad sleep quality; the sleep quality of females was significantly lower than that of males. ②Sleep quality was closely related with the mental health status, life quality and geriatric disease. ③Hypertrophy of the prostate, chronic bronchitis, boned joint disease, cardio-vascular disease, brain blood vessel disease, cancer, diabetes, gallbladder disease, stomach and intestines disease showed significant effects on sleep quality. Conclusion: improveing mental health level, activing to diagnosis and treatment of the mental and physical disease, improving the ability to adapt to society, forming good sleep habit, can help to improve the sleep quality.