Integrative review from the literature that aimed to identify studies on elderly accessibility with physical disabilities to the services of basic health care, between 1998 and 2008. The research was performed in: databases, virtual documents in the collections of the Library from the Health Ministry (Brazil), in the catalogs of the Center for Studies and Researches on Nursing (CEPEN), at the Brazilian Association of Nursing (ABEn), consultation (via e-mail) to experts in the area. Sixty studies were selected and subjected to thematic analysis. It came up the following categories: the history of disability in Brazil, accessibility and social inclusion, disability and the elderly. Articles from different scenarios, subjects and methodologies show similar conditions experienced by people with disabilities when accessing health care systems. Scarcity of resources and public power indifference has been the most evident ones.
Health services accessibility; Disabled persons; Aged; Geriatric nursing