[Determinatives of family caregiver's tension while caring the dependent elderly].

This study had as objective investigate the determinatives of the tension of the dependent elderly's family caregiver. Its accomplish happened in the domestic scenery, involving thirty principal caregivers. The data were collected by a recorded and estructured interview. The analyses of the objective data was made by means of a quantitative approach. The discursive data, for being collected through a structured instrument, dispensed analytic procedure, being distribute between questions that referee in the way of amply your comprehension. The results appoint that the investigated phenomenon starts from determinatives related to the caregiver, to the elderly's deficits, to the interection elderly/caregiver, to the environment, and related to the care demands.