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 ...

Jesus’ parable words in Matthew 25 were, “His master said…’Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things.'” Take a moment and ask of yourself, “To whom do I say ‘well done?'” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Validation therapy, a new approach to dementia, suggests you should not force the sufferer to face reality. Fiona Gibson agrees Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, accounting for around ...