ABSTRACT
The chapter summarizes the empirical findings pertaining to the care arrangements through the presentation of an array of actors involved in care, namely family, informal, formal, institutional, public, private and third-sector actors, in the cases of elderly people from both migrants’ families and stayers’ families. The typology of care arrangements of care provision among participants of the study – the elderly people living in Końskie and Kluczbork – systematizes the care arrangements according to the social organization – complexity and intensiveness of care. The care forms identified earlier (personal, material, emotional, financial and shared accommodation), all play a certain although changing role within each of the care arrangements. In intensive care arrangements (principal care provider – familial or institutional – and dense networks of care), more often identified among people with more care needs, the role of personal care is prominent, though other forms are also present. In the case of less intensive arrangements (limited care, loose networks of care), emotional, material or financial care comes to the fore on a daily basis, but in the case of emergencies, there also appear instances of personal care and even shared accommodation.
