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This article analyzes the different ways of caring for elderly people in the Netherlands, in its social, organizational, and spatial dimensions. This is characterized by a very strong significance of the residential logic, with a gradual transformation in the last fifteen years of their offer, marked by the closure of nursing homes in favor of assisted living housing. Little by little, and faced with a shortage of resources, the Dutch government has decided to reorient its care for the elderly, making it focused on daily life rather than on cure. The result is desirable solutions, which allow individuals to retain freedom of choice, the right to risk, and thereby pleasure, quality, and meaning in their life.