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Abigail Wickson-Griffiths, RN, PhD

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Pronouns: She/Her
Associate Professor
Regina Campus

Contact Info

Office: 306-309-9005
2 Research Drive
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Areas of Interest

  • Palliative care and end of life in long-term care
  • Quality of life in long-term care
  • Dementia care
  • Advanced practice nursing

About

Abby is an Associate Professor working with the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Regina. She is also the Aging Studies graduate program co-coordinator. She is a provincial research co-lead for various Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-Term Care focused studies (spaltc.ca).

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, McMaster University
  • Master's Thesis, Master of Nursing, Ryerson University
  • Doctorate, PhD in Nursing, McMaster University

Current Teaching

  • CNUR 100 Practice Education: Community Partnerships
  • CNUR 102 Foundations of Care I: A Developing Professional
  • CNUR 403 Focused Practice
  • MNUR 818 Advanced Practice Nursing Leadership in Health

Peer Reviewed Grants and Awards

  • Cammer, A., (PI); Lengyel, C., Hunter, P.V., Yakiwchuk, E., & Wickson-Griffiths, A. (CoApplicants) End of life nutrition care in Saskatchewan long-term care homes: Evidence review and stakeholder consultation. Funded by Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation- Align Grant, 2023-2024, ($9963).
  • Kaasalainen, S., Kelley, M.L., Hunter, P., Sussman, T., Thompson, G., Venturato, L., & Wickson-Griffiths A., Durepos, P., McCloskey, R. (PIs). Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-Term Care Alliance’s Scaling up a Palliative Program in Long-Term Care. Funded by Health Canada, 2021-2026, ($1,500,000).
  • Wickson-Griffiths, A., Compton, R., Ottley, K. (Co-PIs); Barlow, M., Cammer, A., Hunter, P.V., Mills, S. Moorman, M., Tupper, S. (Co-Is); Baxter-Jones, A., Brown, L., Flowers, M. & Sommer, L. (Supporters). Building Sustainable Provincial Connections to Maximize Older Adult Quality of Life through Family Integration into Care. Funded by Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, Research Connections Grant. 2021-2022 ($7,500).      
  • Kaasalainen, S., McCloskey, R., Wickson-Griffiths, A., Neil-Sztramko, S., Baxter, S. (PIs); Dobbins, M., Boamah, S., Durepos, P., Hunter, PV., Markle-Reid, M., McCleary, L., Sussman, T., Siu, H., Arya, A., Holroyd-Leduc, J., Thompson, G., Venturato, L (Co-Is). Implementing and Scaling Up the Palliative Care Toolkit in Long-Term Care During COVID. Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Implementation Science Teams: Teams Strengthening Pandemic Preparedness in Long-Term Care Funding Opportunity. 2020-2021 ($149,998).
  • Kaasalainen, S. (Principal Applicant); Hunter, P.V., McCleary, L., Sussman, T., Thompson, G., Venturato, L., & Wickson-Griffiths, A., (PIs); Bourgeois-Guerin, V., Fisher, K., Hadjistavropolous, T., MacDonald, M., Martin-Misener, R., McClement, S., Parker, D., Penner, J., Ploeg, J., Sinclair, S., & You, J. (Co-Is). Implementing, Evaluating, and Scaling Up of the Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-Term Care (SPA-LTC) Program. Funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Grant. 2019-2024 ($948,600).
  • Hunter, P.V. (Principal Investigator), Cammer, A., Stewart, B., Goodridge, D., Compton, R. & Wickson-Griffiths, A. (Co-Applicants). Establishing a Patient-Oriented Research Network to Support Knowledge Mobilization During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Funded by Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, Research Connections: Covid-19 Rapid Response Grant. 2020-2021 ($10,000).
  • Kaasalainen, S., & Hunter, P. (Co-Principal Investigators); Baxter, S., Coker, E., Dal Bello-Haas, D., Dolovich, L., Hadjistavropoulos, T., McAiney, C., Ploeg, J., Thabane, L., Sussman, T., Thompson, G., Wickson-Griffiths, A. (Co-Investigators). Operating Grant- Social Inclusion of Individuals with Dementia and Carers: Improving quality of living and dying for people with advanced dementia and their caregivers. Funded by, Canadian Institutes of Health Research. 2017-2021 ($498,350)

Recent Research Funding

  • Kaasalainen S., Meijers J., de Boer B., Hartigan I, dal Bello-Haas V., Wickson-Griffiths A., Hunter P., Thompson G., Chaudhury H., Thompson K., Innes A. & Verbeek H. Challenging the Status Quo: Implementing Green Care Farms in Canada to Enhance Quality of Life for Persons with Dementia. New Frontiers in Research Fund – Explorations, 2024-2026, $249,750.
  • Kaasalainen S., Durepos P., Wickson-Griffiths A., Bielska I., Hunter P., Thompson G. & Sussman T. In-Touch: Implementation of a person-centered palliative care iNtervention To imprOve comfort, QUality of Life and social engagement of people with advanced dementia in Care Homes. Funded by the New Frontiers in Research Fund – Global, 2024-2025, $249,147.
  • Thompson, G. (Nominated Principal Applicant); Balcom, S., Boamah, S., Dobbins, M., Durepos, P., Hirst, L., Innes, A., Kaasalainen, S., O'Rourke, H., Peacock, S., Wickson-Griffiths, A. (Principal Applicants); Sussman, T. (Co-Applicant); Hunter, P., van der Steen, J. (Collaborators); Family care partner: Sue Luhning. Moving upstream: Integrating a palliative approach into dementia care. CIHR Operating Grant: Evaluation of Dementia Programs, Services, & Care Models Competition, 2024-2027, $242,000.

 

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • Wickson-Griffiths, A., Hunter, P., Tupper, S., Cammer, A., Kaasalainen, S., & Sussman, T. (2024). Creation and evaluation of a video series sharing a palliative approach to care in Canadian long-term care homes. Innovation in Aging, (8, Issue Supplement 1), 578, https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igae098.1893
  • Alford, H., Anvari, N., Lengyel, C., Wickson-Griffiths, A., Hunter, P., Yakiwchuk, E., & Cammer, A. (2024). Resources to support decision-making regarding end-of-Life nutrition care in long-term care: A scoping review. Nutrients, 16(8), 1163. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16081163
  • Serrano, D., Sussman, T., Kaasalainen, S., Wickson-Griffiths, A., Thompson, G., Hunter, P. V., MacIntosh, H.B., & Brazil, K. (2024). A parallel process of staff–family distress in long-term care: A challenge to collaboration. SAGE Open Nursing, 10. https://doi.org/10.1177/23779608241306403
  • Kaasalainen, S., Wickson-Griffiths, A., Hunter, P., Thompson, G., Kruizinga, J., McCleary, L., Sussman, T., Venturato, L., Shaw, S., Boamah, S. A., Bourgeois-Guérin, V., Hadjistavropoulos, T., Macdonald, M., Martin-Misener, R., McClement, S., Parker, D., Penner, J., Ploeg, J., Sinclair, S., & Fisher, K. (2023). Evaluation of the Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long Term Care (SPA-LTC) programme: A protocol of a cluster randomised control trial. BMJ Open, 13(10), e073585. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073585
  • Li, D. H. Y., Yous, M. L., Hunter, P. V., Coker, E., Just, D., Bello-Haas, V. D., McAiney, C., Wickson-Griffiths, A., & Kaasalainen, S. (2023). Supporting the "hallway residents": a qualitative descriptive study of staff perspectives on implementing the Namaste Care intervention in long-term care. BMC geriatrics, 23(1), 661. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-04360-9
  • Thompson, G. & Wickson-Griffiths, A.(2020). A palliative approach to care: From diagnosis to end of life. In L. G. Garcia, L. McCleary, & N. Drummond (Eds.), Strategies and approaches for managing dementia transitions: Riding the waves (pp. 213-234). Elsevier.
  • Kaasalainen, S., Sussman, T., McCleary, L., Thompson, G., Hunter, P.V., Wickson-Griffiths, A.,Cook, R., Dal-Bello Haas, V., Hill, C., Venturato, L., Papaioannou, A., You, J., & Parker, D. (2019). A stakeholder analysis of the strengthening a palliative approach in long term care model. Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, 32(3), 27-39. http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/cjnl.2019.25974
  • Wickson-Griffiths, A.,Kaasalainen, K., & Pokoradi, L. (2018). Nursing roles in managing pain in older adults. In G. Pickering, S. Zwakhalen, & S. Kaasalainen (Eds.), Pain management in older adults: A nursing perspective (pp. 93-108). Springer.
  • McCleary, L., Thompson, G., Venturato, L., Wickson-Griffiths, A.,Hunter, P.V., Sussman, T., & Kaasalainen, S. (2018). Meaningful connections in dementia end of life care in long term care homes. BMC Psychiatry, 18, 307. https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-018-1882-9
  • Wickson-Griffiths, A.,& Holtslander, L. (2017, October). Exploring the End-of-Life Care and Bereavement Needs of Family Members in Long-Term Care Homes. Presented at the 46th Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting: Canadian Association on Gerontology, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
  • Durepos, P., Wickson-Griffiths, A.,Hazzan, A.B., Kaasalainen, S., Vastis, V., Battistella, L., Papaioannou, A. (2017). Assessing the palliative care content in dementia care guidelines: A systematic review. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 53(4): 804-813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.painsymman.2016.10.368
  • Wickson-Griffiths, A., Kaasalainen S., Akhtar-Danesh, N. (2016, October). Utility of the Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) in long-term care (LTC) homes. Presented at the 45th Annual Scientific and Education Meeting: Canadian Association on Gerontology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.