Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Vicki de Klerk-Rubin, executive director of the Validation Therapy Institute. Her mother, Naomi Feil, founded the validation therapy movement benefiting ...

She trained caregivers to “validate” the delusions of older people with dementia, rather than try to wrest them into the real world. By Sam Roberts Naomi Feil was only 8 years old when she moved into ...

Caregivers, struggling to help people with dementia, often see their role as offering scraps of reality—reminding them what year it is, for instance, or who is in the White House. Naomi Feil had a ...

Speaker says validation therapy is listening to patients and letting them work through suppressed emotions BILLINGS — People with Alzheimer's disease need to be treated with respect and empathy, which ...

In the early 2000s I was called into a meeting at work that lasted two hours but changed my professional perspective on dementia care. At that meeting, our speaker was Naomi Feil. Mrs. Feil introduced ...

“Validation Therapy," a workshop that can assist family members and caregivers caring for people with dementia, will meet from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday at Hutchins Street Square, 125 South Hutchins St ...