DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2022.v10i09.007

Pages: 445-452

This contribution questions the influence of the mutual care offer on the experience of retired people from the Ivorian formal private sector, faced with the limits of social protection. Tied to qualitative research, the data produced comes from 22 individual semi-structured interviews conducted with members of the Mutual Society of Private Pensioners of Côte d'Ivoire (SOMUREPCI), from June 2 to October 23, 2020 in the district of Abidjan. Indirect content analysis of the corpus has made it possible to combine the theories of rational choice and social capital. We thus note the patterns of legitimization of individual attitudes of membership, the social practices distributed in the mutual network and the impact of medical assistance on the social trust of members. In total, the use of SOMUREPCI seems to be debating a reorganization of social protection in Côte d'Ivoire, integrating the specific health needs of seniors.