Zelda Freitas

Clinical Senior Advisor, CIUSSS West-Central Montreal and Adjunct Professor, McGill University

Zelda Freitas is a Clinical Senior Advisor, Professional Practices with Multidisciplinary Services at the CIUSSS Center-West Montreal [the regional health and social services network] and an Adjunct Professor at the McGill School of Social Work. She has coordinated the area of Expertise in Caregiving for the CIUSSS, linking research and practice focused on social gerontology. Zelda’s expertise involves caregivers and caregiving, psychosocial practice, including palliative care and end of life care, countering adult mistreatment and older adults. She is currently part of the coordination team of the Caregiver Grief Connexion project.