In Times of the Market and Community Shift: On Live‐In Care and Caring Communities

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.