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 ...
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 ...