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Nowadays, support for the elderly has become a major issue in France. The helping relationships that develop in households or institutions between professionals—home aids, assistant nurses, and nurses—and elderly dependents show how unique work with the stigmatized elderly is. Standing between healthcare and social help, helping relationships in gerontology oscillate between different points of reference: social contracts and donations, professionalization and familiarization, domestic services and family care, etc. Care professionals, whether working in households or institutions, refer to various points of view, opposing rather than complementing one another. Based on research on helping relationships in households and on field research in facilities for the elderly, this paper examines the ambiguity of the helping relationships due to a lack of teamwork.