This paper is a qualitative study using the Grounded Theory as a methodological reference and the Symbolic Interactionism as a theoretical reference. It aimed at understanding the family caregiver’s experience with stroke survivors on the care systems adopted by them during the home rehabilitation process, as it follows: - encouraging the patient’s autonomy recovering and - not encouraging the patient’s autonomy. As the components towards the experience have been interrelated, it could be observed that the own caregiver has perceived that the process of autonomy recovering either that of the CVA-patient or his own have been interdependent and related to the rehabilitation level reached by the patient.
Cerebrovascular accident; Patient; Family; Rehabilitation