Resume

• 1997

  Advocacy and support for family caregivers in BC. Now subsumed under Victoria Family Support Program.

  Caregivers Association of BC

  Community Outreach

  Grant Writing

  Geriatric Social Work

  Teaching

  Program Development

  Volunteer Management

  Psychology

  Program Evaluation

  Research Design

  Dementia

  University Teaching

  Mental Health

  Qualitative Research

  Family Violence

  Research

  Adult Education

  Workshop Facilitation

  Higher Education

  Social Services

  Women's Issues

  Broadening the Dementia Debate: Towards Social Citizenship

  Ruth Bartlett and Deborah O'Connor

  Broadening the Dementia Debate: Towards Social Citizenship

  Barbara Purves

  Dementia

  Personhood and Decision-making: examining the interface

• 1995

  Incapacity Assessor

  Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General

• 1990

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  President's Gold Medal of Excellence (1997)

  Social Work

  Wilfrid Laurier University

• 1985

  O'Connor

  Women's College Hospital

  Deborah O'Connor PhD.

  RSW

  Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

  School of Social Work

  University of British Columbia

  Centre for Research on Personhood in Dementia (CRPD)

  Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

  Consultant

  Private Practice with older adults with dementia and their family members;\nIncapacity assessments;\nCommunity-based research

  Deborah O'Connor PhD.

  RSW

  School of Social Work

  University of British Columbia

  Vancouver

  BC

  Conduct research in the areas of: dementia

  family care

  baby-boomers

  family violence

  and decision-making capacity.\n\nTeach at the graduate and doctoral level: qualitative research methodology

  courses in aging and social work practice; family violence

  mental health;\n\nSupervise PhD students in Social Work and/or Interdisciplinary studies

  Professor

  Women's College Hospital

  Centre for Research on Personhood in Dementia (CRPD)

  University of British Columbia

  Interdisciplinary research team focused on conducting research that promotes better understanding and treatment of people with dementia and their family;

  Director

• 1981

  Master of Social Work (MSW)

  Aging

  University of Toronto

• 1975

  BSW

  Social Work

  University of Windsor