Caregiving happens throughout the life course and influences every family member. Despite the abundant research on the prevalence and consequences of caregiving, little is known about care transitions in later life. This paper aims to fill in this gap by pinpointing the timing of transitioning into a caregiver and transitioning into a care-recipient for different race/ethnic groups using ten waves of data from the Health and Retirement Study. Estimated survival functions for elderly people after 50-year-old suggest that non-Hispanic white elderly tend to enter the roles of caregiving and care-receiving later than non-Hispanic black elderly and Hispanic elderly. The interval between becoming a caregiver and then becoming a care-recipient is also longer for non-Hispanic white elderly than other two groups, indicating that elderly of racial minority and their family may face additional challenges in adapting to such transition. Sources of race/ethnic differences will be further investigated in the next steps.