Little attention has been paid to the changing professional role of frontline community-based health and social care professionals throughout the transition towards a spatial rescaling of state responsibilities towards local communities. The research project will tackle 3 interrelated theoretical and empirical knowledge gaps, taking into account how health and social care professionals can shape community care for disadvantaged elderly citizens, which (1) is intrinsically influenced by the spatial reproduction and concentration of social inequalities in disadvantaged communities (matter-scape), (2) can take into account the individual and collective lifeworlds of disadvantaged elderly citizens in the community (mind-scape), and (3) can tackle the social inequalities and lack of structural resources in proactive partnerships with local social policy makers (power-scape). Urban ethnography will serve as the umbrella methodology of the project, which combines innovative multi-method qualitative research methods.