Family homes are a form of accommodation for users in a smaller environment and, in addition to foster care, they are a form of non-institutional accommodation. Foster care is a well-known practice in various European countries and in principle refers to the foster care of children. Foster care in family homes, as a form of professional activity of a natural person, is a specific feature of the Croatian social system. The advantages of such a foster care system are more, from more flexible accommodation as opposed to institutional to more financially affordable accommodation. This way of caring for the need is also in line with European practice of preferring non-institutional care for the elderly. The difference from European practice is manifested in the lack of gerontological centers to help the elderly in their own homes, which is still being sought in Croatia. This paper will investigate the attitude of the general population regarding the accommodation of loved ones in the family home and which care in the work of family homes is more important, health or social. The sample consisted of 145 people aged 20 to 65 years. Most respondents were in the age range of 20 – 30 age out of the total number of respondents, 145 of them responded completely to the survey questionnaire and only these answers were taken into data processing. Unfortunately, the obtained data could not be compared with other research on related topics, because there is no research on the provision of health care in family homes, but this research leaves enough room for further research based on this study. The obtained results indicate that the general population has a positive attitude about the placement of their loved ones in the family home and that it is more important to provide health care than social care, which can be explained by the fact that forms of care are still insufficiently known to the general population.