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INFORME DE INVESTIGACIÓN Demanda Territorial de Cuidados en Tlajomulco de Zúñiga: hallazgos de una encuesta exploratoria a personas cuidadora

Year: 2026
Type: report
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This technical research report presents the findings of an exploratory survey conducted with 76 caregivers in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, Mexico. Rather than estimating the municipality’s overall demand for care or producing statistically representative results, the study explores how territorial conditions intervene in the everyday organization of care. The analysis is guided by the concept of Territorial Demand for Care (TDC), defined as the additional travel, time, effort, risks, resources, and forms of everyday management required to sustain life under specific territorial conditions. The findings suggest that territorial barriers extend beyond difficulties in mobility or access to services. Their accumulation is associated with broader processes of everyday reorganization, including postponed self-care, reduced social participation, changes in employment trajectories, and the abandonment of educational or economic projects. The survey also shows how households may absorb some of these additional requirements through reductions in consumption, indebtedness, the sale or pawning of assets, and having more than one job. Mobility costs and difficulties are particularly relevant, while water access emerges as a specific territorial dimension of care involving additional tasks of obtaining, purchasing, storing, and managing water. The report argues that care cannot be understood solely in terms of individual needs or the availability of care services. The territorial conditions under which households must resolve everyday care also matter. These exploratory findings provide an empirical basis for incorporating the spatial dimension of care into local research, planning, and public policy, while recognizing that care systems alone cannot resolve the broader territorial inequalities that shape everyday life.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22163759
Language: Spanish
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204646268
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