ABSTRACT
As previously indicated, a lifeworld-led approach to care does not only provide an alternative descriptive power, but also a directional power, given by a consideration of well-being. If well-being offers a core direction for caring then it is important to begin to articulate adequate conceptualisations of well-being that can do justice to both the essence of what it is, and to its possible variations in human lives. It is for this reason that we have found it highly productive to draw on a phenomenological style of philosophy in order to offer a conceptual framework that can articulate a multiplicity of kinds of well-being, and some of the possible paths towards it. But let us start with well-being as an intertwined experiential phenomenon.
