The Validation Breakthrough: Simple Techniques for Communicating with People with Alzheimer's-type DementiaArguing that as the elderly lose contact with the outside world, they turn inward and to the past to work through unresolved emotional issues from their lives, Naomi Feil presents her method for therapeutically dealing with patients with Alzheimer's and other dementias. |
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AlzheimersType Dementia and the | 1 |
The Concept and Techniques of Validation | 27 |
Using Validation with People | 49 |
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