Correlation of family functionality and burden of informal caregivers of hospitalized older adults.

Aim: to analyze the relationship between family functionality and burden of informal caregivers of hospitalized older people.

Methods: this is a cross-sectional study conducted with 98 informal caregivers of hospitalized older people in an inpatient unit of a large hospital in São Carlos, São Paulo. For data collection were used questionnaires to sociodemographic and care context characterization, to evaluate burden and family functionality.