Déborah Cristina de Oliveira

Webpage: https://deboraholiveira.owlstown.net/I am a Registered Nurse with a PhD by the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. I currently work as Lecturer and Researcher at the Faculty of Nursing, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile. I also collaborate as Consultant on long-term care for the Panamerican Health Organization (PAHO). I am interested in the psychosocial experiences of people living with dementia and of their carers, particularly stigma and discrimination, and long-term care and care policy for older people. I am Commissioner for the Lancet Commission on Long-Term Care for Older People; Lifetime Member of the International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA), Global; Member of the Global Observatory of Long-Term Care; Associate Member of MICARE (Millennium Institute for Care Research), Chile; Associate Member of INTERDEM (Early, Timely and Quality Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia), Europe; Associate Member of the National Centre for Healthy Ageing, Melbourne, Australia. Previously, I have worked as Researcher in Brazil (UNIFESP) and in the United Kingdom (University of Nottingham), and as Consultant for both the Social Protection and Health Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (Washington D.C.) and for World Health Organization (WHO), in areas related to long-term care for older people and dementia. I have over 90 publications including peer-reviewed papers in academic journals, policy documents, and book chapters, and I have co-edited two books. I have co-led the drafting of WHOs Framework for countries to achieve an integrated continuum of long-term care (2021); have been involved in drafting WHOs Global status report on the public health response to dementia (2021); and contributed as an expert adviser to WHOs Be healthy, be mobile: a handbook on how to implement mDementia (2021). Within the Interamerican Development Bank, I co-authored the regional report Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean: social protection and quality of life of older persons (2022) and the first analysis of human resource supply and demand for long-term care for older persons in Latin America and the Caribbean (2022). I am / have been Associate Editor for the journals: Dementia, Journal of Alzheimers Disease, and Dementia Neuropsychologia.Emails: deborah.deoliveira@unab.cl / oliveiradc.phd@gmail.com - Telephone: +5632284 5571 - Twitter: @DrDebs_Oliveira (Fonte: Currículo Lattes)