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The law known as the Long-Term Care Act or Dependant Care Act expressly recognizes some of the agents that make up the Social Economy, underlines its importance and introduces preferential treatment for this group in core aspects of the system. This article is an attempt to reflect the importance of the Third Sector in long-term care by reference to long-stay non-profit private hospitals. It describes the third sector group and compares it with other agents using three basic parameters: cost, revenue and staff. This analysis highlights the need for the long-term care information system to incorporate data that identify the activities performed by each of the actors who make up the Social Economy. The aim is to give it visibility and identify their strengths / weaknesses in a sector with a future such as long-term care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]