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Validation Techniques for Dementia Care: The Family Caregiver's Guide to Improving Communication

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I have been struggling to understand how I can best relate to a loved one who has dementia. I know the condition will get worse, not better so I am eager to make the best of the time we have now. I have been thinking that I can help to fix things when in reality, after reading this book I now understand I need to concentrate on the feelings and needs of the person I care for and share those with them. Here we can find a meeting place where we can enjoy being together without a lot of the frustration I have been trying to overcome. By traveling with a loved one into the past due to their time confusion, I have now discovered a way to be with them in the present in a meaningful way that benefits both of us. The validation method is based on supporting the emotional realty of those who suffer from dementia, finding the relevance and meaning of the emotions. Reading this book has assisted me in finding peace in accepting the loved one with dementia even though this long good-bye will continue to be painful and difficult. This book has provided tools I can use to be productive during this healing process. I wish I would have discovered this reading sooner however, I will recommend it to others whenever I have the opportunity so they can benefit from its valuable information.

The work of Naomi Feil has been around for 30 years. This book, based on Naomi Feil's work gives family caregivers tools to validate their disoriented loved one, and bring peace to them. An added benefit for us as caregivers, is that it gives us peace, and helps us to accept our family member as they are now, and begin to listen to the wisdom they can continue to share with us.

Alzheimer's support groups can use this to learn the methods together, and in turn, validate and support one another.

This book is easy to read and encouraging for a person just beginning to deal with this kind of situation.

"Validation Techniques for Dementia Care" was recommended to me by a close friend who has implemented these communicating techniques in caring for his wife who is in stage two of Alzheimer's disease. I am glad I took his recommendation.

The author builds on the principles and techniques developed by Naomi Feil as explained developed and described in her book "The Validation Breakthrough."

The principles are practical, workable, and effective. The step by step guidelines are integrated with background narrative and illuminating information.

"Validation Techniques for Dementia Care" is a valuable resource for family members, caregivers, and health care professional. Highly recommended.

I was very impressed with how quickly the book arrived and couldn't have looked better if I had bought it new in a bookstore.
I'm sorry that I don't have the name of the person that I bought it from... I couldn't get a report to go through so gave up
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