On Christmas eve, Naomi Feil, best known as the developer of the Validation method for communicating with old disoriented persons, died at her home in Jasper, Oregon. She is survived by her four ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you've visited a retirement home or a dementia unit, you've likely noticed the perplexing behaviour of some residents. They repeat the same phrase non-stop or restlessly do one motion over and over ...