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 ...

Naomi Feil, a transformative social worker who used a life’s worth of experience to change the way the world cares for senior citizens and dementia patients, has died at 91. Feil developed the ...

MASON CITY - A new method of communicating with elderly residents with dementia that involves listening to them rather than correcting them is being used successfully at Good Shepherd Health Center in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...