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In Times of the Market and Community Shift: On Live‐In Care and Caring Communities
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Abstract: Under the auspices of neoliberalism, senior care provision is facing both a market and community shift. The respective shifts in societal care responsibilities are particularly evident in how care provision and arrangements are influenced by the state, market, family, and community. This article is conceptualised as a literature review, reflecting on and reinterpreting research results. It spotlights significant tendencies in the field of care and care work, such as their enforced transnational and local commodification and communitisation in neoliberalism, and how they affect demands and claims on care, work, and housing. It continues by reflecting on research on live‐in care and caring communities in Austria and Germany as paradigmatic cases of the market and community shift; it shows how these modes of care provision and care arrangements create a specific life‐care‐work‐housing nexus and are challenged by, contradictory to, or conflicting with the demands and claims on decent or good care, work, and housing. Finally, the article concludes with some comparative remarks on both modes of care provision.
Keywords: care responsibility; care work; caring communities; community‐based care provision; demands and claims on care; housing; hybrid and unequal care arrangements; live‐in care; market‐based care provision
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Vol 14 (2026): Transnational Organization of Labour, Mobility, and Senior Care in Central and Eastern Europe (In Progress)
© Brigitte Aulenbacher, Klaus Wegleitner, Jonas Hagedorn, Bernhard Emunds. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction of the work without further permission provided the original author(s) and source are credited.