Lehren aus der Corona-Krise: Modernisierung des Wächterstaates im SGB XI

With empathy for the chasm between fundamental social rights and social reality, this study demonstrates there is an urgent need for transgressive cultural transformation of the logic behind care policy. The experience of social exclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic shows us that the landscape of care must be transformed to create a new, radical vision of future social policy according to the paradigm of deinstitutionalisation. The alternative is the idea of caring communities: the development of social capital as supporting systems of social networks in local spaces in the context of regional infrastructures.