Sílvias professional experience is in the area of aging (active aging and people with dementia).She has been a lecturer in ESSA since 1991 in the subjects of Intervention with older persons, Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science and in Community Development and Participation. Sílvia has participated in several European Projects in the field of Community Intervention and intervention with older persons and was a lecturer in the first occupational therapy programmes in Georgia, Romania, Polonia and Mozambique.
BSc. in Occupational Therapy and Master in Public Health.
Her research interests are in the area of aging (active aging and people with dementia).