In this 60-minute presentation at the recent Pioneer Network Conference, Vicki de Klerk, Naomi Feil’s daughter, talks about how Naomi developed the Validation method in the 1960’s and 70s; the struggle to get professionals and family members to stop using reality orientation, diversion or lying and start treating disoriented older adults with respect, honor and empathy. […]
The Validation Training Institute is excited to announce that our introductory course, Beginning Validation, is now available in both German and French! […]
In 2016 We choose to go beyond the usual philosophy of the house, we seek something broader. The aim was to provide a new vision, to shift the focus to another, important aspect that until then had received little attention : the whole person. Different methods were being evaluated : Gentecare, Montesori, Validation
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Executive Director, Vicki de Klerk and neurologist, Dr. Daniel C. Potts, co-authored an article in the March edition of Practical Neurology […]
Thank you to everyone who joined us on February 15th for the Validation First World Congress! […]
By Santina Piazzese Spratte, Research and Product Strategist at Almaya In life, and more so when a relative is experiencing cognitive decline, it is not uncommon for families to want to freeze time, to cherish a given moment for as long as humanly possible. But how do you do that? Wellbeing and technology have never […]