Cleusa Ferri is a psychiatrist and epidemiologist, with a master's degree in Psychobiology and a PhD in Psychiatry from the Federal University of São Paulo (EPM-UNIFESP), and a master's degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the University of London (LSHTM). For 11 years (2002-2012), she worked in the Department of Health Services and population Research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. She is currently a professor in the post-graduate program of the Department of Psychiatry at Escola Paulista de Medicina (UNIFESP). She has national and international recognition as a researcher, especially in dementia. Her main areas of interest are: epidemiology and care provision towards the mental health of older people. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Problems related to alcohol consumption stand out internationally as public health priorities. This is an old issue which, despite scientific advances, still involves many challenges, such as risks among young people, detection and early intervention, stigma, relapse prevention, treatment and the network of multidisciplinary care. In recent decades, significant advances in information tec…
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic is a major health crisis that presents major challenges for older adults and their families, support systems, caregivers, and medical and mental health care providers. Older adults are already vulnerable to the harmful effects of isolation, and in the face of the current crisis they can trigger or aggravate anxiety, depression, substance use and other psychi…
Population aging is a worldwide phenomenon. In the last decade, Brazil has faced four times greater growth in the population over 60 years compared to the general population. The change in the psychosocial circumstances faced by this population group contributes to the increasing numbers of suicides in this age group. Most studies related to this topic focus on the younger population and …
Harmful use of alcohol is associated with adverse health and socioeconomic impacts on the individual and society at large. With the rapid access to the population and age-related living conditions, alcohol consumption in older people increased, and were later directed towards coping with this problem. Objective: to pay for the effectiveness of the intervention for the consumption of alcoh…
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