This article analyses local care policies through the lens of the feminist ethics of care. The focus is on the normative understandings regarding care that emerge in local care strategy documents and how these understandings relate with the concept of ‘responsibility’. In this article, strategies published by the municipality of Jyväskylä, Finland, between the years 2008 and 2016, are analysed using Trace analysis. The research questions are: How is the division of responsibility regarding care among different actors constructed in the strategies? How do the roles assigned to these different actors accord with the principles of ethics of care? The findings show that the documents emphasise individual responsibility in managing risks related to old age, as the norms of local societal institutions are largely detached from the principles of ethics of care. The analysis also reveals the absence of gender and human frailty from the care strategy documents. Rethinking the strategies through the lens of the ethic of care would mean reconceptualising responsibility as relational.

本文通过女权主义关怀伦理的视角分析当地的关怀政策。重点是地方护理战略文件中出现的关于护理的规范性理解，以及这些理解如何与“责任”概念相关联。在本文中，芬兰于韦斯屈莱市在 2008 年至 2016 年期间发布的策略使用跟踪分析进行了分析。研究问题是：如何在策略中构建不同参与者之间关于护理的责任分工？分配给这些不同行为者的角色如何符合护理伦理原则？调查结果表明，这些文件强调个人在管理与老年相关的风险方面的责任，因为当地社会机构的规范在很大程度上脱离了护理伦理原则。该分析还揭示了护理战略文件中没有性别和人类脆弱性。从关怀伦理的角度重新思考这些策略意味着将责任重新概念化为关系。