Based on a twelve-year ethnographic study in Havana and rural areas, this book examines the current crisis of eldercare in Cuba. With great humanity and a lively narrative, it shows how intergenerational households use strategies of interdependency and solidarity to care for their elder members and respond as best they can to the crisis. The elderly are a precious source of reproductive work and a reliable familial presence until they in turn require assistance and care, which younger family members, typically women, are expected to provide. The ethnographic data presented in the book show the extent to which Cuba's economic collapse adds complexity to everyday life, amid intergenerational clashes the elderly and younger generations surrounding unending financial frustration, values associated with the Cuban Revolution, and an uncertain future. The promise of socialism no longer appears capable of managing these challenges. Which include rampant migration that continues to take a toll on the working- and childbearing-age population. As a result the burden of care becomes heavier, and solitude spreads among elderly abandoned by family and friends who have migrated, often to the United States. Beyond this multidimensional crisis of care and worsening demographic patterns, the author argues that what Cuba is facing is a crisis of social reproduction that appear specific to socialist countries with centralized economies but holds lessons for many of the world’s developed nations as well.