The increase in cases of influenza virus infections in the last quarter of this year has drawn attention to an old acquaintance of humanity. The flu, as it is popularly called, has generated regional outbreaks across the country, driven by the introduction of a new strain of subtype A (H3N2), named Darwin. Currently, three types of influenza viruses are known: A, B and C. The first two are more likely to cause seasonal epidemics in different parts of the world, while the last one usually causes some milder cases. Type A influenza is classified into subtypes such as A (H1N1) and A (H3N2). Type B is divided into two lineages: Victoria and Yamagata. Although they have genetic differences, all types can cause similar symptoms, such as high fever, cough, sore throat, headaches, body and joint aches, chills and fatigue.

Objective: Describe critical health care for the elderly against COVID-19 in a multidisciplinary approach. Method: This is a qualitative study, with an exploratory documentary and detailed descriptive approach, with a bibliometric emphasis. Where several studies will be gathered for the characterization of each element present in their results. Results and discussion: Several studies were analyzed and discussed about the topics related to this study, they are: critical health care, health of the elderly, Covid-19 and multi disciplinary care. Scientific articles of national and international origin contributed effectively to the discussion of these results. Conclusion: This study achieved its objective, as it described critical health care for the elderly against COVID-19 in a multi disciplinary approach, it contributed satisfactorily to the entire academic community world wide, enabling the creation of new studies on this topic.