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Marie Savundranayagam
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Latest papers
Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Homelike Models in Long-Term Care: A Scoping Review Using the Updated Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research.
Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2026
Education Needs of Canadian Physiotherapists Working With People Living With Dementia: An Online Survey.
Physiotherapy Canada. Physiotherapie Canada · 2025 · senior author
Pediatric oncology caregiving as narrative repair: Restor(y)ing disrupted family biographies and damaged moral identities.
Health (London, England : 1997) · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $2,400,000
Brain Health Care (BHCare) and Support in Aging Research Training Platform
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $867
Understanding the manifestation and perpetuation of dementia-related stigma and ageism through naturalistic conversation between racialized persons living with dementia and their care partner
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
- $65,271
Sources of vulnerability among those using homecare despite having no limitations in Activities of Daily Living. An intersectionality analysis
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
7 publications.
Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Homelike Models in Long-Term Care: A Scoping Review Using the Updated Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research.
Bedard D, Savundranayagam M, Smith M, Vafaei A
Education Needs of Canadian Physiotherapists Working With People Living With Dementia: An Online Survey.
Hunter SW, Nugent K, Arnold C, Auais M, Beaupre L, Bello-Haas VD, Liu-Ambrose T, McArthur C, Savundranayagam M
Pediatric oncology caregiving as narrative repair: Restor(y)ing disrupted family biographies and damaged moral identities.
Molinaro ML, Polzer J, Laliberte Rudman D, Savundranayagam M
Primary care physician engagement in health systems transformation.
Joshi A, Brown JB, Savundranayagam M, Sibbald SL
Strategies used during the cognitive evaluation of older adults with dual sensory impairment: a scoping review.
Dumassais S, Pichora-Fuller MK, Guthrie D, Phillips NA, Savundranayagam M, Wittich W
"I can't be the nurse I want to be": Counter-stories of moral distress in nurses' narratives of pediatric oncology caregiving.
Molinaro ML, Polzer J, Rudman DL, Savundranayagam M
Developing Behavioral Coding to Understand Family Communication Breakdown in Dementia Care.
Coleman CK, Aly IM, Dunham A, Inderhees K, Richardson M, Wilson P, Berkley A, Savundranayagam M, Williams K
Brain Health Care (BHCare) and Support in Aging Research Training Platform
Principal investigators: Montero Odasso, Manuel M; Badhwar, Amanpreet; Bechard, Lauren E; Belleville, Sylvie N; Bethell, Jennifer M; Bherer, Louis; Bronskill, Susan E; Burhan, Amer M; Chertkow, Howard M; Einstein, Gillian; Evans, Alan C; Faria, Frederico P; Feldman, Howard; Fraser, Sarah A; Hadjistavropoulos, Thomas; Ismail, Zahinoor; Kivipelto, Miia; Kobor, Michael S; Liu-Ambrose, Teresa Y; Mangialasche, Francesca; Monchi, Oury; Mullings, Delores V; Rajah, Maria N; Raymond, Lynn A; Roach, Pamela Marie; Savundranayagam, Marie Y; Schabrun, Siobhan; Seitz, Dallas P; Smith, Eric E; Vedel, Isabelle; Walker, Jennifer; Whitehead, Shawn N
Keywords: Cognition, Aging, Brain Health; Dementia Risk Factors; Training
Understanding the manifestation and perpetuation of dementia-related stigma and ageism through naturalistic conversation between racialized persons living with dementia and their care partner
Principal investigators: Philip, George
Keywords: Ageism; Communication; Dementia; Older Adults; Racialized Groups; Stigma
Sources of vulnerability among those using homecare despite having no limitations in Activities of Daily Living. An intersectionality analysis
Principal investigators: Vafaei, Afshin
Keywords: Homecare; Intersectionality; Older Adults; Social Factors
Understanding how to promote post-pandemic recovery in South Asian women caregivers of older adults living in multigenerational households: A mixed methods approach to identifying needs and gaps in social and health services.
Principal investigators: Baxter, Pamela
Keywords: South Asian; caregiving; multigenerational; social services; health services; mixed-methods; implementation; needs assessment; women; families
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Walter Wittich and Walter Wittich: 91 shared papers
- Lauren Beaupre and Mohammad Auais: 2 shared papers
- Teresa Liu-Ambrose and Lauren Beaupre: 1 shared paper
- Teresa Liu-Ambrose and Mohammad Auais: 1 shared paper
- Teresa Liu-Ambrose and Caitlin McArthur: 1 shared paper
- Teresa Liu-Ambrose and Marie Savundranayagam: 1 shared paper
- Lauren Beaupre and Caitlin McArthur: 1 shared paper
- Lauren Beaupre and Marie Savundranayagam: 1 shared paper
- Dawn Guthrie and Walter Wittich: 1 shared paper
- Dawn Guthrie and Marie Savundranayagam: 1 shared paper
- Dawn Guthrie and Walter Wittich: 1 shared paper
- Mohammad Auais and Caitlin McArthur: 1 shared paper
- Mohammad Auais and Marie Savundranayagam: 1 shared paper
- Walter Wittich and Marie Savundranayagam: 1 shared paper
- Maxwell Smith and Afshin Vafaei: 1 shared paper
- Maxwell Smith and Marie Savundranayagam: 1 shared paper
- Caitlin McArthur and Marie Savundranayagam: 1 shared paper
- Afshin Vafaei and Marie Savundranayagam: 1 shared paper
- Marie Savundranayagam and Walter Wittich: 1 shared paper
- School of Health Studies
- Physical Therapy
- Physiotherapy
- Kinesiology and Physical Education
- Health Studies
- School of Rehabilitation
- Psychology
- Other
Co-authors at Western University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Walter Wittich
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Teresa Liu-Ambrose
Physical Therapy
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Lauren Beaupre
Physical Therapy
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Dawn Guthrie
Kinesiology and Physical Education
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Mohammad Auais
School of Rehabilitation
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Walter Wittich
Ecole d'optométrie
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Maxwell Smith
Health Studies
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Caitlin McArthur
Physiotherapy
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Afshin Vafaei
School of Health Studies
1 shared papers, latest 2026
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