Objective: recognizing the self-assessment of quality of life (QOL) of older people caring for elderly from the WHOQOL-BREF tool. Method: a descriptive, exploratory, cross-sectional study, of quantitative nature carried out from February to April 2013 in Fortaleza (CE) with 151 older people caring for elderly. It was used as a research tool the World Health Organization Quality of Life instrument-bref (WHOQOL-b...