INTRODUCTION: Informal caregivers are persons who, outside of a formal or professional health context, provide care to a patient who needs long-term health care. Informal caregivers are usually family members or other persons close to the recipient of care. THE AIM OF THE RESEARCH: To determine the quality and life satisfaction of family members who care for patients with a need for palliative care, and the impact of the role of an informal caregiver on their own health and psychosocial state. RESPONDENTS AND METHODS: The test was conducted during home visits to a patient in need of palliative care by the mobile palliative team of the Šibenik Health Center. Respondents were informal caregivers of persons in need of palliative care, and a total of 44 respondents were included. A questionnaire modified for this research was used, which consisted of the demographic data of the respondents, the BSFC questionnaire (Burden Scale of Family Caregivers) and the PWI questionnaire (Personal Wellbeing Index). The licensed statistical program MedCalc Statistical Software® was used in all analyses, and p-values <0.05 were considered statistically significant. The distribution of data was checked with the Shapiro-Wilk test. Differences between categorical variables were analyzed using the chi-square test or Fisher's exact test. RESULTS: 36 respondents (81.8%) showed no increased risk for the development of psychosomatic physical difficulties, 5 of them (11.4%) showed a medium burden and an increased risk for psychosomatic physical difficulties, and only 3 of them (6 .8%) had a heavy to very heavy load and a very high risk of developing psychosomatic physical difficulties. There was no statistically significant difference in the burden and the risk of developing psychosomatic difficulties depending on gender, age, professional training, work status or kinship with the patient, regardless of whether the BSFC (Burden Scale for Family Caregivers) score was stratified as medium or medium or a very high risk of burden with a high risk of psychosomatic physical difficulties (p>0.05 for all analyses). The total sum of the PWI (Personal Well-Being Index) was 76%. There was no statistically significant difference in the mean values of PWI, for individual questions and in total, depending on the various analyzed sociodemographic factors (p>0.05 for all analyses). CONCLUSION: Analysis of Family Caregiver Burden Scale scores highlights the multiple negative impact of caregiving on caregivers, but also provides insight into areas in which caregivers do well, such as performing necessary caregiving tasks, and areas that are difficult to maintain, such as personal health and managing emotional stress. Age, gender, level of education and employment status did not show a statistically significant difference in the burden of care. The ceregivers burden was equally distributed with regard to the demographic data of the caregivers. Although caregivers face challenges that could prevent them from feeling fully satisfied with their lives, they also possess or receive enough support and resources to avoid experiencing the lowest levels of life satisfaction. Caregivers who face significant challenges still have a generally positive outlook on their overall life situation. We can say that some aspect of proper support for informal caregivers exists, regardless of the fact that informal care is not legally regulated in Croatia