Abstract
The paper refects on the research presented in the article 'A proper place? Practice of everyday and building maintenance in a "home for persons with health impairments"'. This text by Michal Synek, Dana Hradcová, and Radek Carboch has crucial implications for understanding of how residential social services in the Czech Republic operate and how the idea of what constitutes proper care is constructed.
In this refection, the polarisation between employees and clients, described in the paper, is questioned, and a critical evaluation of the means through which the employees of the residential institutions reshape their world is called for.