Introduction: The nurse as a manager in Primary Care, carries out numerous attribution,among them that of advisor, since the nurse as a manager should look for encouraged and educational action. Objective: To analyze the role on nurses in guiding the aging of the elderly in primary care. Materials an methods: it is an integrative litrature review in the virtual databases: Latin AmericanLatin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS), Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SCIELO), Google Scholar and government websites Results: 8 articles were selected published between 2010 and 2020, coping factors were analyzed and identified in guiding the aging process for both the elderly and the nurse Conclusion: the nurse as an advisor faces difficulties throughout his professional journey due to the lack of some resources, the nurses as counselors face difficulties throughout their professional journey due to some complications in the implementation of actions to guide the aging process, requiring expansion in solving the problems presented.`