198 Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik, Volume 23, Issue 3, March 2020 Community-Care Approach for Social Work Practice: Learning from Community-Based Healthcare for Elderly in Yogyakarta Tri Winarni Soenarto Putri 1 , Kafa Abdallah Kafaa 2 , Tauchid Komara Yuda 3 Department of Social Development and Welfare, Universitas Gadjah Mada 1 (email correspondence: triwinarni@ugm.ac.id) 2 (email: abdallah_kafa@mail.ugm.ac.id) 3 (email: tauchid.komara.y@mail.ugm.ac.id / yuda.tk@kdis.ac.kr) Abstract This article aims to demonstrate the application of a community-care approach in the provisioning of elderly social and health care services (hereafter, social-health care) through a case study at Elderly Family Development (Bina Keluarga Lansia–BKL) Mugi Waras in Sumbersari Village, Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta Province. This institution was chosen as a case study since it represents the best community-based long-term social-health care institution for the elderly in Indonesia. Based on the fndings that have been analyzed, it was concluded that there has been shifting of institutional care provision in the community care regime towards more inclusion with mixed welfare features. This may have occurred because BKL was sufering from the lack of resources they have in dealing with the increased needs of the elderly and increased risk. Consequently, even though the infuence of external stakeholders in this initiative appears quite strong, such a community-centered care initiative can be continually maintained and resulted in the hybridization model of a care regime. For social worker’s practitioner insight, the paradigm of program implementation in the BKL Mugi Waras can be adopted as a community-based social work practice that appears to ft developing countries, where elderly service intervention should be fne-tuned to the elderly residents’ living arrangements. Keywords: Community-care regime; social work; Elderly; Social health care service; Indonesia Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik Volume 23, Issue 3, March 2020 (198-209) ISSN 1410-4946 (Print), 2502-7883 (Online) doi: 10.22146/jsp.51896 Introduction During the last decade, previous studies (Priebe & Howell, 2014; Priebe, 2017; Pratono & Maharani, 2018) have demonstrated that Indonesia ranks third among other Asian countries for the fastest growing aging population. To date, nearly 20 million people or 8% of the population of Indonesian citizens have been classifed as elderly. Furthermore, by declining in rates of fertility and mortality, followed by the increase of life expectancy in the last decade, the number of elderly in Indonesia is projected to increase to 25% in 2050, which is equivalent to more than 80 million people (Pratono & Maharani, 2018). Unfortunately, although the trend in the elderly population has rapidly increased, it was not complemented by the adequate quality of life, caused by poverty in the elderly. Also, the rate of poverty in the elderly in Indonesia is significantly higher than in younger citizens. This statement is reinforced by the result of National Socio-Economic Survey (Pratono & Maharani, 2018) showing that the percentage of poverty in the elderly population (60 years old and older) is up to 12.56% of the national average. Furthermore, elderly poverty continues to increase as people are getting older; above 75 years old is the poorest age group. The elderly poverty rate, above 65 years