ABSTRACT
Caring demands a setting, ‘a physical space to embody caring tasks’ (Peace 1998: 107). In the case of informal care, this is most often a domestic setting, either the care provider’s or the care recipient’s own home. In the case of formal care services, the situation is more varied and complex. The issue of where care work takes place is fundamental to the policy of community care, which prioritises community-based domestic settings over institutional care for a wide variety of groups including older people, those who are disabled and those who are mentally ill.
