Donna Thomson

Donna Thomson is a caregiver, author and activist. Her caregiving experience was shaped by caring for her son, who has severe disabilities, and for her mother, who lived with dementia until she passed away in the summer of 2018 at the age of 96.

Donna is the co-author of The Unexpected Journey of Caring: The Transformation of Loved One to Caregiver and author of The Four Walls of My Freedom: Lessons I’ve Learned From a Life of Caregiving. Donna is a co-designer and co-instructor of the family engagement in research course and the facilitator of the caregiving essentials course at McMaster University.