ABSTRACT
The chapter presents two components of ethnomorality of care that invest the reflection on care in the temporal and agentic perspective. Care sequences are the succession of different care arrangements of a particular care receiver. Optimal care arrangements intensify as a care receiver becomes frailer. The majority of the research participants could count on intensification of care arrangements as their dependency level increased. There were two important emerging findings: the agency of actors involved in the coproduction of care effect, both givers and receivers, and the role of economic inequalities in care sequences. Care flows denote the exchange of care by elder adults and their social environment. Elder adults who receive care are often engaged in care provision as well, and in this chapter, their agency in the provision of care is underlined. Various forms of support from elder adults are discussed, mainly those provided to their grandchildren but also to their oldest-old parents and adult children.
