Coordination of care is a critical step toward improvement of health care delivery for elderly persons. Family meetings with hospital and community health care professionals (network meeting) provide a unique opportunity to solve complex situations and improve coordination of care. Because this activity is time- and ressources-consuming a common list of domains to assess and indications to these meetings was developed by a team of hospital and community health care professionals. This article presents these indications and discusses opportunities and pitfalls of these network meetings.