This thesis proposal is to undertake a comprehensive analysis of ways to walk the life of caregivers of elderly assisted the Division of Geriatric, University hospital URFJ. The elderly are understood as those with partial or total dependence and therefore they need care. Caregivers are those family numbers that offers care to these elderly people. And way care is found to define dedication, zeal, affection, observation. The assumption is that theses caregivers have reduced their ability to care for losing the affection due the heavy workload, it was learned that don’t have solidarity of the family or with the support of the public to the extent that there isn’t public policy of care related to home care and family caregivers. The object is the world of life of caregivers, and, in all the circumstances that may underlie or pervade this life before the daily care, understood as one of the most stressful when circumscribed universe of diseases in the elderly, especially those who gives depending on the diseases that cause cognitive impairment. To understand this world of life were used two ways of obtaining information, interviews and focus groups. Twelve subjects participated in the interviews and meetings sixty-six. We used guiding questions for interviews and group sessions. Here we use as a method of understanding the qualitative research. We used also the comprehensive method of analysis, where the narratives provided the web to weave the understanding of how to walk the life of caregivers, so this needs to be changed to improve the quality of care and safety that is offered it receives. The research revealed that the problems involving caregivers brings new elements to think about the role of the same society, showed that family caregivers constantly found themselves faced with multiple challenges, it was revealed through the narratives as the caregivers are stressed, the accumulation domestic work with care, because they never rest, do not have time to take care of themselves, they are always unable for a moment of pleasure. Research has shown that the absence of institutions to welcome people to demand for care makes the maximum liability focuses on the family and usually on one of its components.