Healthcare service is a constitutional right in Brazil, and everyone should have access to it regardless of their age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, or geographic location. Social care, however, is provided depending on the individual needs identified by social care workers jointly with healthcare staff, as well as the socioeconomic condition of the family/person in need. There are only a few public care homes nationally, and access to such facilities is limited to very poor people. Formal day-to-day home care is not provided by the public sector, and is usually taken over by the family.