Zirkulation von Vulnerabilität. Wie in Hausbesuchen der Altenpflege soziale Unsicherheit erzeugt und bewältigt wird.

While workers in extramural care per se operate in an exposed professional field, strategies of New Public Management and economisation have fundamentally changed the practice of social services in the last decades. With the increasing variation of life situations and needs, in which the diverse inequalities and aggravated problems are mirrored, as well as the changed organisational framework conditions, also the relation of (relative) uncertainty, which characterises extramural care, and the control of intervention conditions, which aim at stabilising potential risks, is set anew. The objective of this article is to study these observations by means of an analytical concept of vulnerability and to focus on those who work at the frontlines. As the starting material serves an empirical study of workers in extramural care in the field of elderly care which was realized in Vienna within the scope of an international research project.