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News and Events
2025
April/May
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Want to experience Be EPIC-VR in action?
Visit us at the during the AdvantAge Ontario – Advancing Senior Care Convention in Toronto!
📍 Sheraton Centre Toronto (123 Queen Street West, Toronto)
🗓️ April 30 | 5–7 PM
🗓️ May 1 | 10 AM–2 PMStop by our table 2 (VIDE Foyer) to explore how immersive VR can support dementia care training.
2024
November
- Our Director, Dr. Marie Savundranayagam and Dr. Anna Garnett (Nursing) are the research leads on the McCormick Mobile Study.
July: Newsletter 
March: Toronto Star Article
- Our Director, Dr. Marie Savundranayagam teaches health-care workers to look at the environment surrounding a person with dementia for clues about what they like and don’t like. Click the link to read the full Toronto Star article
January
2022
- Featured on the "" series by Tamil Women Rising, a nonprofit organization that empowers Tamil women and their allies to seek success and advance their careers. (March 3, 2022)
- Interviewed by Madelaine Currelly on her radio show, Aging – A New Reality, on Northumberland 89.7 FM
- Topic: Health Care for Older Adults. Included discussions on Be EPIC training, communication, hearing, and aging
- Topic: Importance of Social Well-being
- Topic: Health Care for Older Adults. Included discussions on Be EPIC training, communication, hearing, and aging
2020
- Be EPIC: Working conditions impacting person-centered care & COVID-19 impacts update (December 2020)
2019
2018
- What sparked a career in gerontology? Read a of Dr. Savundranayagam, published by 成人大片 Undergraduate Research Journal.
2017
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