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The aim of this study was to identify the association between functionality, depressive symptoms, and fragility in elderly adults in primary care. This is an exploratory, descriptive study with a quantitative approach and a cross-sectional design, carried out in a municipality in the interior of southwestern Bahia. The instruments used were the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), a sociodemographic questionnaire on health conditions, the Edmonton Fragility Scale (EFS), and the Self-Reported Fragility Scale. The data were analyzed through descriptive analyses with absolute and relative frequencies and the application of the Chi-square test, adopting a value of p \u2264 0.05. Results: A statistically significant difference was found between elderly adults classified as frail and female gender (p = 0.019), marital status without a partner (p = 0.001), dependence in BADL (p = 0.008), dependence in IADL (p-value = 0.000), and the presence of depressive symptoms (p = 0.000). 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