This amounts to four types of needs: normative, felt, expressed and comparative. in the older generation, they may not think they feel a need or want to say what they need. While the younger generation may think they deserve every need. A critical approach now used due to changes to the Care Act, which emphasizes both basic needs and the needs for a sense of subjective well-being, with the primary consideration being the well-being of a person and what is important to them and their family. goes beyond Maslow's theory. Quote p.