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Health policy responses to aging used to be centered primarily on hospitals, because social representations identified the elderly with their diseases and their dependencies. The question was felt to be one of dealing with the diseases connected with old age, of implementing initiatives to prevent them and their causes—depression, poor nutrition, falls, incontinence, and so on—and of abrupt changes in life which led to hospitalization. These factors produced an automatic increase in health care costs. Geriatricians are now taking more interest in the stage before frailty—that is, in those in their sixties. How should care be organized for over those over 75? Cognitive dependence necessarily increases in the years which follow. Unlike physical dependence, there is no way to cure or compensate for such disabilities. We must take this data into account in future health policies concerning the elderly, and find responses to it.