The invention discloses a method for recognizing falling of old people and an accompanying robot, and relates to the field of falling posture recognition. The method comprises the steps: 1, collectingbody video data; 2, positioning a human body; 3, acquiring skeleton information based on the result; 4, calculating a head and foot height difference value hd, a head and foot height difference valuehp of a front frame and a rear frame, and a speed v and a shoulder width w corresponding to the head height difference value of the front frame and the rear frame according to the skeleton information; and 5, establishing a judgment formula according to the data, outputting a result, calculating a distance measurement error, judging whether the distance measurement error meets a dichotomy condition or not, if so, identifying by adopting the established neural network model, and if not, returning to the step 1. According to the method, figure extraction is carried out firstly, and then posturerecognition is carried out, and dynamic and static recognition is carried out through skeleton information, so that the problem of low recognition accuracy caused by local feature extraction and detection in the prior art is solved, and the falling behavior of the old people can be correctly and rapidly recognized.