BBC Sport rugby union information reporter Mike Henson:
It was extensively anticipated Care would comply with his former team-mate and buddy Joe Marler into the sundown, hanging up his boots on the finish of this season.
These expectations had been partly set by Care himself.
“I am nonetheless a Harlequins participant on the time of writing, though whether or not I make it to the top of one other season stays to be seen,” he wrote within the autobiography launched within the autumn.
“The ache in my knee and shoulder is not getting any simpler and there are occasions after I’d reasonably be anyplace else than on a coaching floor. Rugby is not any sport for previous males.”
However, with the assistance of recent conditioning and restoration strategies, gamers have been in a position to play longer.
Care’s former Harlequins team-mate Mike Brown, who will flip 40 this 12 months, remains to be turning out for Leicester, whereas former Premiership stalwart Jimmy Gopperth is taking part in within the French second tier aged 41.
Care’s resolution to remain on might have an effect on succession planning at Quins.
Along with Will Porter, in addition they have extremely rated 18-year-old Lucas Friday as a scrum-half choice. Nonetheless, they had been reported to have lined up Sale’s Raffi Quirke, external as an end-of-season alternative for Care.