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This article argues that insights from the field of social studies of science and technology are relevant for assessing the highly politicized and contested knowledge for development and the eradication of global poverty elaborated by the World Bank. The World Bank, which has become a transnational expert institution, is best characterized as a 'site of co-production', producing both knowledge and social orders. Such a perspective helps in unveiling problems related to expertise and problems of delegation fundamental in relations between politics and knowledge. At the same time, applying insights from the social studies of science and technology provides an explanatory framework for knowledge-based science advice and suggestions for increasing the salience, credibility and legitimacy of such knowledge. The article calls for institutional innovations that may lead to dialogue and a more transparent and accountable debate among competing knowledge claims and political visions within and outside transnational expert bodies.

Objective: discussing the scientific production on health about the functional capacity of the elderly through an integrative literature review of the last ten years. Method: an integrative review was used, since this method allows for searching, critical evaluation and synthesis of the available evidence from the research theme, being its final product the current state of knowledge and identifying gaps that drive development of future research. Results: starting the process of defining descriptors, it used the operator "terminology in health" where it identified terms relevant to their studies as descriptors: Functionality and Elderly; being able to selecting 13 articles that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Conclusion: through the characterization of the analyzed reports, it believes that Brazilian articles on health that punctuate Functionality in the Elderly in daily activities, demonstrate that this field is not yet saturated.