To grow old is to lose gradually. At the end of life, the elderly person who has become frail comes to be dependent. It is one thing to take a look at these vulnerable beings, but when they enter an institution, they lose a little more of their humanity. The article proposes to go to meet them in a narrative approach: the clinical-dialogical. They told their stories, and have become once again actors of a life that continues. A way to rethink the support in old age is proposed.