Researchers in this cluster focus on improving the quality of life of long-term care residents, their caregivers, and care workers with a specific focus on caregiving, loneliness, mental health, pain, and palliative care.
Natasha Gallant, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Regina
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Ph.D., ABPP, FCAHS, Department of Psychology, University of Regina
Abigail Wickson-Griffiths, Ph.D, Faculty of Nursing, University of Regina
Mir Nabila Ashraf, Aging Studies
Kelsey Haczkewicz, Psychology
Gallant, N. L., Hardy, M.-S., Beogo, I., Conklin, J., Connelly, D., Kaasalainen, S., Keefe, J., Robitaille, A., Yous, M.-L., Fanaki, C., & Cameron, C. (2022). Improving family presence in long-term care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare Quarterly.
Gallant, N. L., Hadjistavropoulos, T., Winters, E. M., Feere, E. K., & Wickson-Griffiths, A. (2022). Development, evaluation, and implementation of an online pain assessment training program for staff in rural long-term care facilities: A case series approach. BMC Geriatrics, 22, 336.
Finnegan, H., Daari, L., Jaiswal, A., Sinn, C. J., Ellis, K., Kallan, L., Nguyen, D., & Gallant, N. L. (2022). Changing care: Applying the Transtheoretical Model of Change to embed equity, diversity, and inclusion in long-term care research in Canada. Societies (Special Issue: Corporealities of Care Research, Policy, and Knowledge), 12(3), 87.
For more information, contact Cluster Leader Dr. Natasha Gallant at Natasha.Gallant@uregina.ca.
This National Pain Awareness Week, people are still needlessly experiencing unmanaged pain. Find out what can be done to address it and look at how far we've come in the implementation of the Action Plan for Pain in Canada. #NPAW2025 http://PainCanada.ca/actionplan
Congratulations to #URegina psychology professor @DrThomasHadjist, recipient of the 2025 @cagacg Contribution to Gerontology Award!
Presented on Saturday in Montreal, the award honours outstanding contributions to the field of aging. 👏 #gerontology #research #congrats
Congratulations to my student @HaileyReimer on her presentation on validating synthetic images for use in development of automated pain expression detection algorithms #AGEWELL2025 @Babak_Taati @UofRAgingCentre @UofRegina
My student, @hailey_reimer1 presenting collaborative work with @Babak_Taati ‘s group at the @cagacg conference. Focus is on using synthetic images to train pain monitoring computer vision algorithms @UofRAgingCentre @UofRegina
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