Paper short abstract:

The answers to the health necessities of dependent people would be covered through mechanisms that neither family groups nor social-health services really cover. Immigration in domestic environment generates a cultural dialogue and new challenges in informal care.

Paper long abstract:

The experiences of human health and disease constitute a process that can be understood like a continuous one where the evolution of the process towards the end of the disease displays several practices of health. As informal care systems, as self-attention processes proliferate and are developed in the health process search. The answers to the necessities of dependent people would be covered through mechanisms that neither family groups nor social-health services really cover. The care values are therefore, one of the aspects in which we will take our attention due to its importance and its expanded historical route, bound in its origin to the basic care of life maintenance. The phenomenon of immigration in domestic environment could be generating a cultural dialogue and new challenges in the family unit, roles, beliefs and cultural patterns which have an important influence in the configuration of the informal care.