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Support and respite platforms, resulting from the 2008–2012 National Alzheimer Plan, have as their mission “to offer a diversified range of respite structures in each territory that meet the needs of patients and the expectations of carers, while guaranteeing accessibility to these structures.” Since 2014, the respite center, a service managed by the CCAS of Villeurbanne, has been offering sequential care to elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease or related syndromes living at home. A short stay allows the caregiver/cared-for dyad to gradually experience separation and to have a first experience of life in the community. A bond of trust will gradually develop between professionals, the people being cared for, and their family caregivers. This bond will allow families to express, usually for the first time, their daily experiences, difficulties, questions, expectations, fears, feelings, and how they see the future. For gerontology professionals, it is also an original experience, one that is radically different from the current organization of care in geriatric institutions and that takes into account the difficulties and needs of the spouse or family.