Prepared on the occasion of Professor Piotr Błędowski’s 70th birthday, this White Paper serves as a strategic framework for reforming the Polish senior care system amidst the critical demographic challenges of the coming third decade of the 21st century. The document diagnoses the definitive exhaustion of the model based on “patchwork care” and unpaid family labour, highlighting the existence of an incoherent “archipelago of services” where older people fall through systemic cracks. The response to this crisis is a proposal for a new social contract, underpinned by a precise sectoral task matrix. The White Paper postulates a fundamental reconstruction of the system across three integrated dimensions: 1 Regulation. The introduction of a unified Long-Term Care Act and rigorous quality of care standards for all entities. 2 Delivery. The deinstitutionalisation of care and shifting the responsibilities to the local environment, where the municipality acts as coordinator. Services must be precisely distinguished between medical care and treatment facilities, nursing and care facilities, social care homes, and hospices. 3 Financing. The implementation of dedicated long-term care insurance as a guarantor of stability and social solidarity. The publication calls for an end to departmental dualism, support for family and local caregivers, and the broad utilisation of technology and social innovations. It is an appeal to transition from improvisation to a stable safety net, which constitutes an absolute national priority in the face of the continuing population ageing.