Abstract: Diabetic patient education on appropriate self-care play a key role in preventing foot complications. The aim of this study was to estimate the effectiveness of an educational program on diabetic foot care for elderly. Quasi experimental research design was utilized. The study was conducted at four rural villages in Assiut city. The total number of participants was 100 diabetic elderly patients which chosen by a multi- stage sampling technique. Two tools were developed by the researchers; tool I: A structured interview questionnaire include two parts, 1st Part included demographic data. The 2nd part included questions for assessing foot self-care knowledge, tool II: an observational checklist to assess the elderly' practice regarding foot care. The results revealed that 85.0% of the studied elderly are diabetic since 5-10 years and (91.0%) of them hadn’t diabetes foot. Good score of elderly` knowledge about foot care in pre, post and follow up were (0.0%, 21.0% and 16.0% respectively). Also (4.0%, 93.0% and 63.0% respectively) had satisfactory score of practice in pre, post and follow up, with a statistically significant difference in pre and post tests and in pre and follow up tests. The study concluded that there is a serious lack of diabetic foot care knowledge and practice among the studied elderly. Health education intervention succeeded in improving them which suggest the essential foot care education should be acquainted to a larger group in different health care centers over a longer period of time. Advanced research is recommended to determine at whether the increases in foot care practices should be implemented and re-enforced.