Qualitative study based on the Social Phenomenology of Alfred Schütz with the aim of understanding the care for the dependent elderly mother from the daughter's point of view. Achieved in 2011 with ten participants, who were interviewed at home from their mothers.The typical caring daughter's action makes her as being the one who establishes a caring relation focused by preoccupation with the situation of the elderly mother's dependency, which generates one inversion of roles from mother and daughter. It shows a physical, physic and emotional wearing resulting from the day by day caring, needing a social support to help her in this care. Looking forward to keeping the mother's life and postponing as much as possible the end of her life. This result arising to the care professionals concerning planning and achieving the home care to think in effective articulation between the requirements both daughter and elderly mothers show.
Nursing; Aging; Family relations; Caregivers; Qualitative research