The thinking style reflects the perceptual process and the cognitive pattern of individuals and groups from different cultural background when facing with problems.Since 1990s，psychologists have compared the thinking style of Chinese and Americans and they found that westerners tended to engage more in analytic thinking，whereas Chinese preferred holistic thinking.Further research conducted by Hou and his colleges suggested that the holistic thinking included the holism，change and contradiction in information processing.Based on the structure of Chinese thinking style，the present study investigated the behavioral and psychological effect of the holistic thinking style on the elderly patients in the health-care field.160 elderly patients were investigated by the Chinese thinking style rating scale and the questionnaires on the factors of disease origin and disease rehabilitation，which are all prepared by our team.Then we found patients' awareness of the disease origin was highly correlated with their thinking styles.Elderly patients with stronger contradictory thinking styles tended to make more use of social support and their own stress mechanism；those who with stronger changeable thinking pattern tended to make less use of social support.From the perspective of disease rehabilitation，patients with stronger holistic thinking pattern emphasized the value of the external supportive factors and the internal attitude on the rehabilitation more；whereas patients with stronger changeable thinking did not admit the positive influence of the external supportive factors and the internal attitude on the rehabilitation.The study also found that，apart from thinking style，other factors（including gender，age and education level）simultaneously altered the elderly patients' awareness of the disease origin and disease rehabilitation.The study proved our hypothesis that thinking style could influence the mechanism and the results were valuable in the maintenance of an individual's physical and mental health.