Objective To comprehensively analyze the current research status of care for the disabled elderly in China in the past 10 years

in order to discover the research hotspots and development trends of care for the disabled elderly in China and provide references for future research. Methods The China National Knowledge Infrastructure（CNKI） database was selected as the source of literature. The literature in the field of care for the disabled elderly published from 2010 to 2020 was retrieved

and the number of publications was counted. Citespace.5.7.R3 was used to visualize and analyze the knowledge graph of authors

research institutions

and keywords of the sample literature.Results The total number of valid papers included in this study was 531. The overall number of publications showed an increasing trend year by year from 2010 to 2020. The lowest number of publications（6） appeared in 2011 and 2019 saw the highest number of publications（101）. The clustered knowledge map of research institutions and authors shows that research institutions and authors are mainly concentrated in major universities and research institutes

and the network structure of the whole knowledge map is relatively scattered without forming obvious clustering modules

indicating that scholars and institutions in the research field of care for the disabled elderly have few academic communications and cooperations. The top 10 high-frequency keywords were extracted from the keyword co-occurrence knowledge map

which were

in order

elderly with disabilities

longterm care

family caregivers

disability

caregivers

social support

influencing factors

elderly with disabilities in rural areas

rural areas

and demand. As for the top emerging keywords

we can see that the top emerging keywords in 2013 were "care services"

and the top emerging keywords in 2013-2014 were "family care" and "institutional care" respectively. The most trending keywords in 2014-2015 were "response" and "qualitative research". The strongest emergent keyword in 2018-2020 was "aging". The keyword timeline shows that the fields of long-term care

caregivers

and the elderly have been focused on since 2010. The three fields of primary caregivers

qualitative research

and impact factor analysis received attention from domestic scholars in 2012.The field of rural elderly with disabilities gradually received less attention from 2018 onwards. Conclusion The areas of sustained attention by domestic scholars are issues related to long-term care and caregivers of the disabled elderly. In terms of caregivers of the disabled elderly

scholars focused on exploring the responsibilities and caregiving of family caregivers in the care of the disabled elderly

which indicates that family eldercare remains the primary choice in the long-term care of the disabled elderly. Meanwhile

the intensity of keywords in four clustering areas

namely

long-term care

primary caregiver

family caregiver

and analysis of influencing factors

showed increasing intensity with time

indicating that the research areas of long-term care for the disabled elderly

the subject of caregiving

and the influencing factors of caregiving will continue to draw attention in the future.