Filipa Pereira

Filipa Pereira is an Associate Professor at the School of Health, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland. Her work focuses on evidence-based practice, geriatric nursing, and medication management for polymedicated older adults. She leads interprofessional research on post-discharge care, nurse presenteeism, and patient-centered models.

• Email: filipa.pereira@hevs.ch
• Key Research Areas: Evidence-based practice, Geriatric care, Medication safety, Qualitative/quantitative research

Her studies address medication-related problems in aging populations, nurse presenteeism in Switzerland and Portugal, and delirium prevention through caregiver integration. Recent work includes systematic reviews on climate change awareness in nursing and models for medication self-management after hospital discharge.

The OptiMed intervention program (2023) aims to reduce medication-related problems through caregiver support. Her 2022 studies analyze barriers to physical assessments in rehabilitation and predictive models for nursing home admissions. Earlier work (2021) explores polypharmacy beliefs and functional decline in polymedicated patients.