UCC were delighted to host a workshop with the founder of Validation Therapy, Naomi Feil, on 30th May, 2014 at the Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, UCC. This was the first such workshop to be held in Ireland and it was Naomi Feil’s first visit to Cork. 

Validation Therapy is a way of working and communicating with older people who have dementia and it is particularly focused on people who are in later stages of dementia. It makes use of sensory

methods of communication such as touch, song and movement, to build relationships, and to connect with the interests people had, and the activities they engaged in at earlier times in their lives.

The workshop was attended by over 100 practitioners and students from a variety of disciplines such as nursing, care staff, social work and psychology, as well as by informal caregivers, staff from the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, and members of the Cork Carers Association.