[Frailty in elderly people: what nursing research has produced].

This integrative literature review aims to identify scientific production in nursing about frailty in elderly people using the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Latin-American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde - LILACS) and Scopus. The study included 16 articles, two published in Brazilian periodicals and 14 of other nations. The review shows that 37.5% (6) of the articles focus on a paradigm shift regarding the care model and 26.7% (4) highlight the family as the primary care unit in the context of a frail elder. It is noted that the nurse plays a key role in the context of frailty, in the development of individual care, and in the support of family members and other caregivers of frail elders.