Social Care and the Social Organization of Care as Key Categoriesfor the Analysis of Public Policies

Abstract

This work is part of the development of the UBACYT Research Project: Articulations between Mental Health and Primary Health Care in Argentina 2014-2017: Discourses, Practices and Subjectivity in the process of implementing the National Mental Health Law N° 26,657, directed by Prof. Alicia Stolkiner. Its objective is to describe and analyze the categories of “social care” and “social organization of care” as keys for the analysis of public policies aimed at elderly people with dependency. In previous works, the care of the elderly was addressed as a right to be included in the public agenda and proposals for dependency care based on the community were analyzed, such as Day Clubs and Day Centers. Analysis of conceptions of care and the social organization of care as a key category in the analysis of public policies, which makes it possible to identify the distribution of care responsibilities between the state, market, family and community. It is a type of theoretical research of documentary and bibliographical analysis