Abstract
Objective: To describe the role of nurses in guaranteeing the health of the elderly in the Hiperdia program. Methods: This is an integrative review, in which they were consulted with the Virtual Health Library (VHL) accessing the databases: Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS) and Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SciELO). Results: In total, 13 articles were found that met the inclusion criteria for this work. Thus, it is understood that nurses working in the Family Health Strategy (ESF) need to plan and implement research and monitoring activities for the elderly. According to the data collected in the survey, he could see that systemic arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus is the leading cause of hospitalizations in the public health system and are the main risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, of which about 60 to 80 % of cases can be treated in the basic public network Final considerations: It can be seen that nurses have played a very important role in prioritizing the development of basic health actions in the monitoring of hypertensive and diabetic elderly.