Parental Care as Infrastructure for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in Norway

We explore the care work of parents in the lives of adults with intellectual disabilities in Norway. We theorize these parental contributions as a form of care infrastructure. Through their presence in the daily lives of the persons with intellectual disabilities as well as through maintenance work and repair work on welfare services, parents respond to unpredictable care provision in the welfare state. These efforts sometimes entail invention and result in new types of care structures, which we call "care pioneering."