Community-based care provision: Fulfilling or subsidizing the right to care?

Abstract

The paper addresses the concept of community care, analyzing its relationship with the guarantee of the right to care and its role in the social organization of care. First, the concept of care is studied, followed by an analysis of how community care fits within the social organization of care. The role of community care is then problematized, as it primarily arises in response to the lack of state provisions and the inability to access the market for care services, leading to questions about its role in a society that guarantees the right to care. Finally, the paper concludes that communities have an irreplaceable role in the provision of care due to the social motivations and forms that community care can take. However, their function should not be to compensate for state deficits and must be performed under decent working conditions and in compliance with the standards of the right to care.