ABSTRACT
This study explores the relationship between reform and resistance in Ulefoss, a Norwegian industrial community in south-eastern Norway.1 In 1989 the municipal administration launched an ambitious attempt to reorganize care for the elderly. The overall aim was to reduce the emphasis on institutional care and develop more flexible services at reduced costs. The new policy was to materialize from a comprehensive and inclusive planning process which was to create political consensus and link this to goaloriented administrative action in an unambiguous way.
