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          Naomi Feil

          American gerontologist (1932–2023)

          Naomi Feil (July 22, 1932 – December 24, 2023) was a German-American social worker who developed validation therapy (holistic therapy that focuses on empathy and provides means for people with cognitive deficit and dementia to communicate).

          Early life and education

          Naomi Feil was born in Munich, Germany, on July 22, 1932, and immigrated to the United States in July 1937, growing up first in New York City and then, from age 8 on, in Cleveland at the Montefiore Home for the Aged where her parents worked.

          Her mother was the head of the Social Service Department and her father was the administrator.[1]

          After a period of early adulthood in New York City, acting and studying theater at New York's Herbert Berghof Studio, Feil resumed her lifelong calling, acquiring a master's degree in Social Work from Columbia University and returning to Cleveland to begin her professional life at Montefiore, incorporating her natural fla