Currently, the prevalence of pain in the elderly constitutes a public health problem, since these disorders tend to worse over time, limiting the daily activities of the individual and generating a psychological, social, family and work impact. Objective: Describing the functional dependence level and the perceived social support in the elderly with pain. Methodology: transversal descriptive research with non-probability convenience sampling, with a sample of 200 older adults from bucaramanga. the instrument of perceived social support, the Barthel test and the McGill questionnaire were applied. The results indicate higher prevalence of 69% women, married, with ages between 65 and 75 years, belonging to social strata 3, with a level of education without the elementary school complete. that participants describe their pain as abrupt 58.5%, 71.5% cruelly, 61.0% Most have high levels of social and 86.5% is totally independent.