Abstract: Frailty is one of the common geriatric syndromes, which attracts more and more attention of global gerontological nursing professionals. It is of vital importance to take actions to improve the frail status of communitydwelling elders, and to maintain their functional independence and to enhance the quality of life. In this paper, impact of frailty to community-dwelling elders was described, as well as the assessment of frailty. Moreover, this paper summarized the development of non-pharmacological interventions for community-dwelling frail elders from the aspects of exercise,nutrition, comprehensive geriatric assessment and multifactorial interdisciplinary intervention.