Ana, A.

Background: In western societies, the aging population and the social-labour pressures cause difficulties to the families with dependent individuals at domiciliary context. The purpose of this study is to know the main factors that determine the burden of informal carer of the dependent individual in the domiciliary context.

Methods: We used a non-probabilistic sample, formed by 66 informal carers, mostly female (73.9%), whit an average age of 57.24 years.