Given the increasein the number of elderly people in Croatia and the changes affects a family, we are faced with an increased number of older people who have no one to care for them. Institutional care for the elderly in our country has developed around the larger cities, while in smaller communities, particularly in Eastern Slavonia, and therefore in Našice, foster care developed as an alternative. This paper engages with foster care for adults and seniors in Našice and its surroundings. It presents legal framework regulating foster care and then presents the dana related to the foster care giver and foster care users. Data presented in this paper were obtained by access to the statistics SWC Našice. Data show that the number of foster care users increases and that the number of foster families is constant. Average foster caregiver is a woman, married, with primary or secondary education, between 30 and 50 years of age. Often, the motivation for carrying out this activity states financial compensation for caregivers. There is only few research in the field of foster care for the elderly and, considering the development of this industryin the Slavonia, they are necessary in order to examine the needs of foster care givers and foster care users in order to improve this sector.