I am a Registered Nurse with a PhD by the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Currently, I am an Academic 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 in 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.
- Board Member of the International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) (2024-2025), Global.
- Member of WHO's Global Network on Long-term Care (https://www.who.int/groups/global-network-on-long-term-care)
- Member of the Executive Board 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.
- Honorary Senior Academic for the School of Primary and Allied Health Care, Peninsula Campus, Monash University, Australia.
- Associate Member of the National Centre for Healthy Ageing, Melbourne, Australia.
Previous experience
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 led the writing of the first Long-Term Care Policy for the Americas, adopted by member states in 2024 (https://www.paho.org/en/documents/cd618-policy-long-term-care). I have also co-led the drafting of WHO’s “Framework for countries to achieve an integrated continuum of long-term care” (2021) and of WHO's "Long-term care for older people: package for universal health coverage" (2024); have been involved in drafting WHO’s “Global status report on the public health response to dementia” (2021); and contributed as an expert adviser to WHO’s “Be healthy, be mobile: a handbook on how to implement mDementia” (2021); and WHO's "Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) guideline for mental, neurological and substance use disorders" (2023). 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: Aging&Mental Health, Dementia, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, and Dementia & Neuropsychologia.
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 led the writing of the first Long-Term Care Policy for the Americas, adopted by member states in 2024 (https://www.paho.org/en/documents/cd618-policy-long-term-care). I have also co-led the drafting of WHO’s “Framework for countries to achieve an integrated continuum of long-term care” (2021) and of WHO's "Long-term care for older people: package for universal health coverage" (2024); have been involved in drafting WHO’s “Global status report on the public health response to dementia” (2021); and contributed as an expert adviser to WHO’s “Be healthy, be mobile: a handbook on how to implement mDementia” (2021); and WHO's "Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) guideline for mental, neurological and substance use disorders" (2023). 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: Aging&Mental Health, Dementia, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, and Dementia & Neuropsychologia.
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Emails: [email protected] / [email protected]
Telephone: +5632284 5571
Twitter: @DrDebs_Oliveira
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Emails: [email protected] / [email protected]
Telephone: +5632284 5571
Twitter: @DrDebs_Oliveira
Institutional profile
ORCID
Google Scholar
ResearchGate
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ANID profile (Chile)