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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The more you seek validation, the more fragile you may become. There's a deeper need that validation can never satisfy—here's ...