Maria Gabriella Melchiorre, MS, graduated with a degree in Economics. She collaborated with the Department of Economic Sociology at the University of Ancona (Italy), from 1989 to 1997, on several national and international research projects regarding migrants and care policies for the family. Since 1997, she has been a social researcher at the Centre for Socio-Economic Research on Ageing, IRCCS INRCA (Italy’s National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing) of Ancona, working on many European projects on the social aspects of family caregiving of elderly people, long-term care, prevention of abuse and neglect in old age, migrant care workers, multimorbidity, frailty and eHealth.