The level of regional elderly education has an important influence on the harmonious development of local economy and society. How to improve the performance of regional elderly education resource allocation has attracted increasing attention. Based on the theory of coordination and resource allocation

this paper takes 16 cities in Shandong Province as research samples

integrates 5 dimensions and 7 conditions of industry

education

and government by using configuration thinking and fsQCA method

and discusses the multiple concurrent factors and complex causal mechanism that affect the performance of regional elderly education resource allocation. The results show that: (1) A single factor cannot lead to high performance of regional elderly education resource allocation. It has to be realized through multi-factor configuration linkage; (2) There are two driving mechanisms for the performance of regional elderly education resource allocation

namely

tuition fee-organization form oriented mechanism

and government funding-institution quantity oriented mechanism

with tuition fee-organization form oriented mechanism having more effect in promoting the performance of regional elderly education resource allocation; (3) There are two paths for driving the performance of non-high regional elderly education resource allocation

namely

regulation-teacher quality inhibition and financial capital-teacher quantity inhibition. In these two paths

organization form and organization quantity as the core conditions

and government regulation as the marginal condition are found missing. This study enriches the theory of regional elderly education resource coordination

expands the research methods of regional resource allocation performance

and provides guidance for local governments and relevant departments to allocate elderly education resources effectively.