She believed that people with dementia were desperate to connect. By Daniel Bergner “Every cell remembers where it was touched by the mother,” Naomi Feil says in a clip from a 2007 documentary, viewed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Naomi Feil, a transformative social worker who used a life’s worth of experience to change the way the world cares for senior ...

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 ...

This empathic and often poetic medical-training film features a powerful performance by co-director Naomi Feil as a nurse who learns to cope with aphasia, the inability to speak as a result of a brain ...

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 ...