Holly Symonds-Brown, University of Alberta

Research

Aging Aging In Place Facility-Based Care Home Care Transition

Latest papers

Association of compassion fatigue and work context with post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among care aides in nursing homes.
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026
Working With and Against the Status Quo: Politicization of Family Care Work by Canadian Punjabi Family Carers.
Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement · 2026
A Deleuzian Examination of Anorexia & Recovery: Opening up Possibilities for Conceptualizing Care.
Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals · 2026

All 12 publications

Latest funding

Lifetime and workplace traumatic events among care aides who work in long-term care homes: Influences on job burnout, mental health, and intention to leave
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$350,369
The Supporting Older Adults at Home (SOAH) Project: Examining the association of home health service activities with the risk of transition from home to facility-based continuing care settings
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
$569,926
Reimagining aging futures for people with mental illness
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$23,986

All 5 grants and awards

12 publications.

01

Association of compassion fatigue and work context with post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among care aides in nursing homes.

Wang A, Duan Y, Kang SH, Symonds-Brown H, Saeidzadeh S, Silvius J, Banerjee S, Norton PG, Estabrooks CA

Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2026

DOI: 10.1007/s00127-026-03174-5 PMID: 42458063

02

Working With and Against the Status Quo: Politicization of Family Care Work by Canadian Punjabi Family Carers.

Judge H, Symonds-Brown H, Grewal AA, Funk LM

Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement2026

DOI: 10.1017/s0714980826100580 PMID: 41906674

03

A Deleuzian Examination of Anorexia & Recovery: Opening up Possibilities for Conceptualizing Care.

Gaudet S, Symonds-Brown H, Spiers J

Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals2026

DOI: 10.1111/nup.70073 PMID: 41728648

04

Complicated Interactions in Home Care: An Ethnographic Study.

Einarsdottir VT, Snorradottir A, Pols J, Symonds-Brown H, Bjornsdottir K

Global qualitative nursing research2026

DOI: 10.1177/23333936261426317 PMID: 41767785

05

Care Aides Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Compassion Satisfaction Related to Long-Term Care (LTC) Working Environment.

Rahman A, Duan Y, Symonds-Brown H, Salma J, Estabrooks CA

Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society2026

DOI: 10.1177/07334648251328400 PMID: 40126450

06

Assessing the impact of day programs on individuals living with dementia and their family/friend caregivers (AIDA-DemCare): protocol of a prospective cohort study combined with a qualitative evaluation.

Hoben M, Ubell A, Maxwell CJ, Allana S, Doupe MB, Symonds-Brown H, Hogan DB, Daly T, Tate KC, Wagg A, Nguyen H, Berta W, Bethell J, Caspar S, Goodarzi Z, McGrail K, Cummings GG, Rowe M, Kay K, Kostyk P, Lazaruk K, MacLean B, Mann J, Prescott K

BMC public health2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-23896-6 PMID: 40830776

07

There Is Never Really Just a Simple Choice: Nurse Advocacy for Gender-Transformative Cardiovascular Disease Prevention.

Tegg NL, Norris CM, Symonds-Brown H

Nursing inquiry2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/nin.70045 PMID: 40581995

08

Adult day programs and their effects on individuals with dementia and their caregivers (ADAPT-DemCare): a realist synthesis to develop program theories on the how and why.

Nguyen H, Rahman A, Ubell A, Goodarzi Z, Maxwell CJ, Allana S, Tate K, Symonds-Brown H, Weeks L, Caspar S, Mann J, Hoben M

Systematic reviews2024

DOI: 10.1186/s13643-024-02683-1 PMID: 39443968

09

The day program multiple: Noncoherence and ontological politics.

Symonds-Brown H, Ceci C

Health (London, England : 1997)2024First author

DOI: 10.1177/13634593221116501 PMID: 35904116

10

'Sand in the works?' Infrastructural affordances and life with dementia in the community.

Symonds-Brown H, Ceci C, Judge H

Sociology of health & illness2022First author

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13532 PMID: 36054021

Lifetime and workplace traumatic events among care aides who work in long-term care homes: Influences on job burnout, mental health, and intention to leave

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Duan, Yinfei; Estabrooks, Carole Anne; Silvius, James L

Keywords: Health Care Aides; Long-Term Care Homes; Personal Support Workers; Stessful Events; Trauma-Informed Care; Traumatic Experience; Workforce Well-Being

$350,369

The Supporting Older Adults at Home (SOAH) Project: Examining the association of home health service activities with the risk of transition from home to facility-based continuing care settings

Principal investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Tate, Kaitlyn; Cummings, Greta; Hoben, Matthias; Symonds-Brown, Holly J

Keywords: Aging; Aging In Place; Facility-Based Care; Home Care; Transition

$569,926

Reimagining aging futures for people with mental illness

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Symonds-Brown, Holly

Keywords: Community Participatory Research; Mental Illness; Ageing; Place

$23,986

LIVinG with ChrONIc cancer TrEatments (LONGEVITI)

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Pituskin, Edith

Keywords: chronic disease; cancer; qualitative methods; photovoice; lived space; survivorship

$72,500

Dementia and the Mobilities of Everyday Life in the Public Spaces

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Symonds-Brown, Holly

Keywords: Mobilities; Dementia; Social Exclusion; Social Inclusion; Social Infrastructure

$62,179

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

Health Policy and Management
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing
Medicine
Surgery
Emergency Medicine
Nursing
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
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Applying for

Paper to mentionMention their CIHR grant from 2024

Subject: Prospective PhD student: Aging Dear Professor Symonds-Brown, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Association of compassion fatigue and work context with post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among care aides in nursing homes." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "The Supporting Older Adults at Home (SOAH) Project: Examining the association of home health service activities with the risk of transition from home to facility-based continuing care settings" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]