Description/Overview: In recent years has been increased research about self-care, because are recognized a main area for nursing. Chronic disease put challenges to the person in the field of self-care, namely in the individual disease’s management and the therapeutic regimen. The ineffectiveness of management contributes to situations that generate dependence, such as stroke, not only for the disease but mainly for the consequences of the situation. When we discussed the dependent person cannot isolate your family, since most of the time she will need a caregiver.to help the family caregiver in this new role it is necessary to develop interactive educational tools. In this symposium we propose to present three qualitative research studies, developed with the conceptual frame work centered on the experience of transitional health / disease according Afaf Meleis. This joint presentation aims to: - Demonstrate an explanatory theory of self-management - Describe factors that influence the autonomy`s reconstruction process in self-care, after a situation that causes dependence - Characterize the family transition associated with the integration of a dependent family - To describe the main components of an interactive tool