Various perspectives (and ways of thinking) underlie the thinking about
care and welfare. These perspectives are also evident in clients’
stories, and the challenge is to identify them.

On the one hand, there is the person seeking care with their request for
help, and on the other, there is the care provider with the offer of
help, so it is important to view this from above, as it were.

Four different approaches to care and welfare are distinguished.
Biomedical thinking and the systems approach are the most well-known;
existential-anthropological thinking and the culturological approach are
less well-known. These four approaches give different meanings to the
concepts of “health” and “well-being,” but they are also worldviews.
The question then is how people fare who seek health and well-being
against the backdrop of these worldviews.