This is an experience report, of critical-reflexive approach, and descriptive and comprehensive nature, about the experience of being a stock-student PIBIC/CNPq of a multicentric research titled "The dynamics of the family of older elderly: the living and care in the fourth age", in the context of Jequié-BA, during the term of the scholarship (from August/2008 to July/2009). The objective is to report my experience as an undergraduate student with a scholarship and share it to encourage other students to enter into the paths of research. The subjects of this research are the pair formed by primary family caregivers of the elderly with more than 80 years of age and even the elder to whom the care is given. The experience has broaden the vision of the world, linking context, complexity and intersubjectivity of the investigation universe.
Nursing Research; Family; Aged, 80 and over