Catherine Ward-Griffin

Research

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Caregiving Community Care Dementia Health Care Knowledge Translation Policy Development

Latest papers

Social Isolation of Older Adults, Family, and Formal Caregivers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stories and Solutions Through Participatory Action Research.
Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement · 2024 · senior author
Double-duty caregivers enduring COVID-19 pandemic to endemic: "It's just wearing me down".
PloS one · 2024
Double-Duty Carers’ Health and Wellbeing during COVID-19: Exploring the Role of Mobility of the Care Economy in Southern Ontario, Canada
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2024

All 36 publications

Latest funding

Boundaries and Borderlands: Negotiating Care Work in Long-term Residential Settings
CIHR · 2013 · Co-investigator
$390,096
Knowledge Translation in Dementia Care: It Takes a Community
CIHR · 2013 · Nominated PI
$24,498
Double Duty Caregiving and Health Human Resources: A Knowledge Translation Initiative
CIHR · 2011 · Nominated PI
$22,499

All 6 grants and awards

36 publications.

01

Social Isolation of Older Adults, Family, and Formal Caregivers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stories and Solutions Through Participatory Action Research.

MacLeod A, Levesque J, Ward-Griffin C

Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1017/s071498082300048x PMID: 37721044

02

Double-duty caregivers enduring COVID-19 pandemic to endemic: "It's just wearing me down".

Parmar J, L'Heureux T, Lobchuk M, Penner J, Charles L, St Amant O, Ward-Griffin C, Anderson S

PloS one2024

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298584 PMID: 38626216

03

Double-Duty Carers’ Health and Wellbeing during COVID-19: Exploring the Role of Mobility of the Care Economy in Southern Ontario, Canada

Ravensbergen L, Mehta S, Sethi B, Ward-Griffin C, Williams A

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health20242 citations

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph21060730

04

Spaces of Exclusion: Safety, Stigma, and Surveillance of Mothers Experiencing Homelessness.

Benbow S, Forchuk C, Berman H, Gorlick C, Ward-Griffin C

The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres2019Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/0844562119859138 PMID: 31282752

05

Mothering Without a Home: Internalized Impacts of Social Exclusion.

Benbow S, Forchuk C, Berman H, Gorlick C, Ward-Griffin C

The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres2019Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/0844562118818948 PMID: 30587004

06

Discourses Reproducing Gender Inequities in Hospice Palliative Home Care.

Sutherland N, Ward-Griffin C, McWilliam C, Stajduhar K

The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres2018

DOI: 10.1177/0844562118788239 PMID: 30025468

07

Client or Volunteer? Understanding Neoliberalism and Neocolonialism Within International Volunteer Health Work.

St-Amant O, Ward-Griffin C, Berman H, Vainio-Mattila A

Global qualitative nursing research2018

DOI: 10.1177/2333393618792956 PMID: 30151418

08

Evaluating dementia home care practices: The reification of care norms.

DeForge R, Ward-Griffin C, St-Amant O, Hall J, McWilliam C, Forbes D, Kloseck M, Oudshoorn A

Journal of aging studies2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2017.09.002 PMID: 29173511

09

Structural impact on gendered expectations and exemptions for family caregivers in hospice palliative home care.

Sutherland N, Ward-Griffin C, McWilliam C, Stajduhar K

Nursing inquiry2017

DOI: 10.1111/nin.12157 PMID: 27605353

10

Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy: A Critical Discourse Analysis.

Benbow S, Gorlick C, Forchuk C, Ward-Griffin C, Berman H

The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres2016

DOI: 10.1177/0844562116684729 PMID: 28841075

Boundaries and Borderlands: Negotiating Care Work in Long-term Residential Settings

Co-investigatorCIHR2013Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Baumbusch, Jennifer L

Keywords: Care Work; Critical Ethnography; Informal Caregivers; Intersectionality; Long-Term Residential Care; Power Relations

$390,096

Knowledge Translation in Dementia Care: It Takes a Community

Nominated PICIHR2013Dissemination Events - PA: Gender, Sex and Health Research

Principal investigators: Ward-Griffin, Catherine M

Keywords: Caregiving; Community Care; Dementia; Health Care; Knowledge Translation; Policy Development

$24,498

Double Duty Caregiving and Health Human Resources: A Knowledge Translation Initiative

Nominated PICIHR2011Dissemination Events - PA: Integrated Knowledge Translation

Principal investigators: Ward-Griffin, Catherine M

Keywords: Family Caregiving; Formal Caregiving; Knowedge Translation; Nursing; Policy Development

$22,499

International Nurse Migration on the Global Distribution of Resources for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Developing Nations: A Critical Discourse Analysis

SupervisorCIHR2009Doctoral Research Award - PA: Health Services/Pop. Health HIV/AIDS Research

Principal investigators: St-Amant, Oona M

Keywords: Canadian International Health Policy; Critical Perspectives; Global Nursing Shortage; Health Promotion; Hiv/Aids In Developing Nations; International Nurse Migration; Migration And Foreign Aid Policies

$66,000

Building Partnerships in Community-Based Dementia Care.

Nominated PICIHR2009Research Program on Care Practice in Cognitive Impairment in Aging

Principal investigators: Ward-Griffin, Catherine M

Keywords: Dementia

$65,570

Implementation of Best Practices in Specialized Geriatric Services: Using Critical Ethnography in Knowledge Translation

SupervisorCIHR2008Doctoral Award - Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Deforge, Ryan T

Keywords: Aging; Critical Perspectives; Ethnography; Guideline Implementation; Health Promotion; Implementation Science; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Mixed Methods; Participatory Action Research; Theory To Practice

$105,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

1 shared papers, latest 2007

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