ABSTRACT
Although community care deals with the most basic and everyday needs of people, the ways in which it has been presented often miss the concrete nature of this reality. Accounts of community care tend to be concerned with the institutional framework and the network of government polices that relate to this. These are important subjects, but the dominance of the approach has meant that much of the life has been squeezed out of the subject. The day-to-day reality of people’s lives with its richness and variety is often missing.
