Research Articles By Year

Cao, P., McGrath, C., & Rudman, D. L. (March 2023). Navigating the “Blind World”: The psychosocial and occupational experiences of parents of adolescents with visual impairments. British Journal of Visual Impairment, doi: 02646196231154477.

Kay, K., Metersky, K., Smye, V., McGrath, C., Johnson, K., Astell, A., Sun, W., & Bartfay, E. (March 2023). A Scoping Review to Inform the Development of Dementia Care Competencies. Dementia. doi:10.1177/14713012231165568

Stewart, K. E., Hand, C., Rudman, D. L., McGrath, C., McFarland, J., Gilliland, J., & Kinghorn, W. (November 2022). Invisible, unrecognized and undervalued: Examining stories of unpaid work performed by older adults in their local neighborhoods. Ageing & Society, 1-27. 

Keel, S., Lingham, G., Misra, N., Block, S., Bourne, R., Calonge, M., … & McGrath, C. (November 2022). Toward Universal Eye Health Coverage—Key Outcomes of the World Health Organization Package of Eye Care Interventions: A Systematic Review. JAMA Ophthalmology, 140(12), 1229-1238. 

Hand, C., Prentice, K., McGrath, C., Rudman, D. L., & Donnelly, C. (August 2022). Contested occupation in place: Experiences of inclusion and exclusion in seniors’ housing. Journal of Occupational Science, 1-17. 

Desai, S., McGrath, C., McNeil, H., Sveistrup, H., McMurray, J., & Astell, A. (August 2022). Experiential value of technologies: A qualitative study with older adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(2235).

Fuchigami, K., McGrath, C., Bengall, J., Kim, S., & Laliberte Rudman, D. (June 2022). Assistive Technology Use Among Older Adults with Vision Loss: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Canadian Newspapers. Canadian Journal on Aging 41(2), 154-163.

DePaul, VG., Parniak, S., Hand, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., Letts, L., McGrath, C., Richardson, J., Cooper, H., Nguyen, P., Bayoumi, I., Tranmer, J., & Donnelly, C. (April 2022). Identification and engagement of naturally occurring retirement communities to support healthy aging in Canada: A set of methods for replication. BMC Geriatrics, 22(355).

Kang, J., McGrath, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., & Hand, C. (April 2022). The role of social networks in the occupational engagement of older adults with age-related vision loss: A narrative inquiry. OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health. doi: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15394492221078315

Mills, C. M., Parniak, S., Hand, C., McGrath, C., Rudman, D. L., Chislett, C., … & Donnelly, C. (February 2022). The Impact of a Naturally Occurring Retirement Community Supportive Services Program on Older Adult Participants’ Social Networks: Semi-structured Interview Study. JMIR aging, 5(4), e37617.

Hand, C., Stewart, K., Rudman, D., McGrath, C., McFarland, J., & Gilliland, J. (October 2021). Applying the go-along method to enhance understandings of occupation in context. Journal of Occupational Science. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2021.1992794

McGrath, C., Karsan, I., Corrado, AM., Lyons, TA., & Blue, M. (October 2021). The impact of combined age-related vision loss and dementia on the participation of older adults: A scoping review. PLOS One, 16(2), 1-17.

Sheldrake, E., McGrath, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., & Holmes, J. (October 2021). Understanding identity negotiation of Parkinson’s disease and occupational engagement using narrative inquiry. Physical and Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, 40(2), 113-134.

McGrath, C., & Hand, C. (June 2021). Engagement in the social context of the neighbourhood: A critical ethnographic study of older adults with age-related vision loss (ARVL). Wellbeing, Space & Society, 2 (100041).

Benjamin-Thomas, T.E., Laliberte Rudman, D., McGrath, C., Cameron, D., Abraham, V., Gunaseelan, J., & Kumar, S. (February 2021). Situating Occupational Injustices Experienced by Children with Disabilities in Rural India within Sociocultural, Economic, and Systemic Conditions. Journal of Occupational Science. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2021.1899038

McGrath, C. (February 2021). Setting research priorities in age-related vision loss: The first step in a critical participatory action research approach. British Journal of Visual Impairment, 40(2), 351-359.

Chum, K., Fitzhenry, G., Robinson, K., Murphy, M., Phan, D., Alvarez, J., Hand, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., & McGrath, C. (2020). Examining community-based housing models to support aging in place: A scoping review. The Gerontologist. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaa142

​Baptiste, S., Dhillon, S., Decker, K., Lidstone, N., Dix., L., McGrath, C., McMahon, P., Steggles, E., & von Zweck, C. (2020). The occupational therapy examination and practice preparation (OTepp) program: Development, implementation and evaluation of a Canadian certificate program for internationally educated occupational therapists. Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 4(3), 1-18.

McGrath, C., & Laliberte Rudman, D. (2019). Using participant observation to enable critical understandings of disability in later life: An illustration conducted with older adults with low vision. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 18, 1-11.

​Benjamin-Thomas, T. E., Laliberte Rudman, D., Gunaseelan, J., Abraham, V. J., Cameron, D., McGrath, C., Vinoth Kumar, S. P. (2019). A participatory filmmaking process with children with disabilities in rural India: Working towards inclusive research. Methodological Innovations. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799119890795

​Corrado, AM., Benjamin-Thomas, TE., McGrath, C., Hand, C., & Laliberte Rudman, D. (2019). Participatory action research with older adults: A critical interpretive synthesis. The Gerontologist, Available online: doi: 10.1093/geront/gnz080.

​McGrath, C., & Corrado, AM. (2019). Psychological adaptation strategies to support engagement: A metasynthesis of vision loss research. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 86(5), 377-387.

​McGrath, C., Molinaro, M., Sheldrake, E., Laliberte Rudman, D., & Astell, A. (2019). A protocol paper on the preservation of identity: Understanding the technology adoption patterns of older adults with age-related vision loss (ARVL). International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 18, 1-8.

​Hand, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., McGrath, C., Donnelly, C., Sands, M. (2019). Initiating Participatory Action Research with Older Adults: Lessons Learned through Reflexivity. Canadian Journal on Aging, 38(4), 512-520.

​Astell, A., McGrath, C., & Dove, E. (2019). “That’s for old so and so’s!”: Does identity influence older adults’ technology adoption decisions? Ageing & Society, Available online: doi:10.1017/S0144686X19000230.

​McGrath, C., & Corrado, AM. (2019). The environmental factors that influence technology adoption for older adults with age-related vision loss. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 82(8), 493-501.

Benjamin-Thomas, TE., Corrado, AM., McGrath, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., & Hand, C. (2018). Working towards the Promise of Participatory Action Research: Learning from Ageing Research Exemplars. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Available online. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406918817953

McGrath, C., Ellis, M., Harney-Levine, S., Wright, D., Williams, L., Hwang, F., Archer, L., & Astell, A. (2017). Investigating the enabling factors influencing Occupational Therapists’ adoption of assisted living technology. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 80(11), 668-675.

​McGrath, C., Sidhu, K., & Mahl, H. (2017). Interventions to support the occupational engagement of older adults with age-related vision loss (ARVL): Findings from a scoping review. Physical and Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, 35(1), 1-17.

​McGrath, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., Spafford, M., Trentham, B., & Polgar, J. (2017). The environmental production of disability for seniors with age-related vision loss (ARVL). Canadian Journal on Aging, 36(1), 1-12.

Grenier, A., Barken, R., McGrath, C. (2016). Homelessness and Aging: The contradictory ordering of ‘house’ and ‘home.’ Journal of Aging Studies, 39(1), 73-80.

Laliberte Rudman, D., Gold, D., McGrath, C., Zuvela, B., Spafford, M., Renwick, R. (2016). “Why would I want to go out?” The process of negotiating social participation amongst Canadian older adults with age-related vision loss. Canadian Journal on Aging, 35(4), 465-478.

​McGrath, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., Polgar, J., Spafford, M., & Trentham, B. (2016). Negotiating ‘positive’ aging in the presence of age-related vision loss (ARVL): The shaping and perpetuation of disability. Journal of Aging Studies, 39(1), 1-10.

​Grenier, A., Griffin, M., & McGrath, C. (2016). Aging and Disability: The paradoxical positions of the chronological life course. The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 12(2/3), 11-27.

​McGrath, C., & Astell, A. (2016). The benefits and barriers to technology acquisition: Understanding the decision-making processes of older adults with age-related vision loss (ARVL). British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 80(2), 123-131.

​McGrath, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., Trentham, B., Polgar, J., & Spafford, M. (2016). Re-shaping understandings of disability associated with age-related vision loss (ARVL): Incorporating critical disability perspectives into research and practice. Disability and Rehabilitation, 39(19), 1990-1998.

​Egan, M., Laliberte Rudman, D., Ceci, C., Kessler, D., McGrath, C., Gardner, P., King, J., Lanoix, M., & Malhotra, R. (2016). Seniors, risk, and rehabilitation: Broadening our thinking. Disability and Rehabilitation, 39(13), 1348-1355.

​Laliberte Rudman, D., Egan, M., McGrath, C., Kessler, D., Gardner, P., Ceci, C., & King, J. (2016). Low vision rehabilitation, age-related vision loss and risk: A critical interpretive synthesis. The Gerontologist, 56(3), 32-45.

​Egan, M., Kessler, D., Ceci, C., Laliberte-Rudman, D., McGrath, C., Sikora, L., Gardner, P. (2016). Problematizing risk in stroke rehabilitation. Disability and Rehabilitation, 38(23), 2334-2344.

McGrath, C., & Laliberte-Rudman, D. (2013). Factors that influence the occupational engagement of older adults with low vision: A scoping review. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 76(5), 234-241.

​McGrath C., & Laliberte-Rudman, D. (2013). Environmental influences on occupational engagement among older adults with low vision: A critical ethnographic study. Visibility, 7(3), 21-22.

​Letts, L., Edwards, M., Berenyi, J., Moros, K., O’Neil, C., O’Toole, C., & McGrath, C. (2011). Using occupations to improve quality of life, health and wellness, and client and caregiver satisfaction for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: An evidence based review. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 65, 497-504.

​Vrkljan, B., McGrath, C., & Letts, L. (2011). Office based screening tools for assessing fitness to drive: A critical appraisal of the evidence. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 78(2), 80-96.

​McGrath, C. (2011). Low Vision and Older Adults: The Role of Occupational Therapy. OT Now, 13(3).

Letts, L., Edwards, M., Berenyi, J., Moros, K., O’Neil, C., O’Toole, C., & McGrath, C. (2009). AOTA Critically Appraised Topics and Papers Series: Alzheimer’s Disease. American Occupational Therapy Association.