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Colleen McGrath
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Exploring the impact of the direct funding model on the occupational performance and engagement on adults with physical disabilities
CIHR · 2024 · Supervisor
- $122,538
Reconceptualizing third places: Countering social isolation in lives without workplaces
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $53,203
Reconceptualizing third places: Countering social isolation in lives without workplaces
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
No publications available.
Exploring the impact of the direct funding model on the occupational performance and engagement on adults with physical disabilities
Principal investigators: Mohler, Elizabeth C
Keywords: Ableism; Attendant Care Services; Critical Discourse Analysis; Direct Funding; Disability; Governmentality; Occupational Possibilities
Reconceptualizing third places: Countering social isolation in lives without workplaces
Principal investigators: Laliberte Rudman, Debbie
Keywords: social isolation; aging; long-term unemployment; place; critical ethnography; occupation
Reconceptualizing third places: Countering social isolation in lives without workplaces
Principal investigators: Laliberte Rudman, Debbie
Keywords: social isolation; aging; long-term unemployment; place; critical ethnography; occupation
Exploring the Support Networks of Caregivers of Persons Living with Stroke (PLWS)
Principal investigators: Sibalija, Jovana
Keywords: Summer Program In Aging
Supporting Optimal Aging: Social Networks in Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities
Keywords: optimal aging; aging-in-place; naturally occurring retirement communities; social networks; well-being
Enacting a critical participatory action research process with older adults aging with vision loss: A focus on community mobility
Principal investigators: McGrath, Colleen E.
Keywords: older adults; age-related vision loss ARVL; community mobility; critical participatory action research CPAR
Enacting a critical participatory action research process with older adults aging with vision loss: A focus on community mobility
Principal investigators: McGrath, Colleen E.
Keywords: older adults; age-related vision loss ARVL; community mobility; critical participatory action research CPAR
Fostering healthy aging in naturally occurring retirement communities: a mixed methods explanatory case study
Principal investigators: Depaul, Vincent G; Donnelly, Catherine A
Keywords: Aging; Aging In Place; Community Based Health Promotion; Health Service Coordination; Healthy Aging; Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities; Nutrition; Physical Activity; Social Determinants; Social Isolation
Exploring and promoting older adults' inclusion in neighbourhoods
Principal investigators: Hand, Carri L.
Keywords: older adults; inclusion; age-friendly communities; participation in activities; neighbourhood; mixed methods; participatory research
The preservation of identity: Understanding the technology adoption patterns of older adults with age-related vision loss (ARVL)
Principal investigators: McGrath, Colleen
Keywords: (1) Older adults; (2) Age-related vision loss; (3) Identity; (4) Self-image; (5) Technology adoption; (6) Critical ethnography; (7) Critical gerontology; (8) Identity theory; (9) Interdisciplinary research
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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