Scholarly work on eldercare has centered on caregiving for older family members, and the cultural notions of reciprocity that underlie these care relations. In comparison, work on older persons’ notions of independence and self-care is relatively recent. This chapter examines the ways in which cultures of care and reciprocity within Asian societies have changed in response to social and economic processes, and shifting welfare regimes. By reviewing literature on the changes in older persons’ care expectations and care negotiations, the chapter suggests that older persons’ transforming views on what constitutes ideal care for them are influenced by the intersection of multiple factors such as their exposure to different care cultures, migration of adult children, marketization of care, and state discourses on ageing. The chapter offers the “care pentagon” as a useful framework to understand the evolving nature of an older person’s capacity to self-care and the associated care dependencies (De Silva, 2017). The care pentagon maps a person’s care mix that constitutes the self, family, community, market and the state, and the manner in which these caregivers, some who are not located in the older person’s country of residence, operate to form a tiered network of caregivers. Subsequently, the care pentagon is applied to the case study of older parents living in Sri Lanka whose adult children are permanent skilled migrants in Australia.