Members and Associate Members hold faculty or senior research appointments at a university or health care facility and demonstrate academic excellence in gerontology or health research in general (e.g., multiple publications, substantial external grants)
Cluster Leader: Pain in Old Age
Research Interests: Pain assessment, dementia, gerontology, ethics and standards of professional practice, clinical psychology, and health psychology.
Clinical Interests: Adult Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Adult Psychological Assessment.
Research Interests: Disability, personhood, and social inclusion; relationships among long-term care residents, family caregivers, staff, and organizational leaders; family communication and care in long-term care settings; quality of life in long-term care; strengthening a palliative approach in long-term care; mental health support in long-term care
Research Interests: Role of nutrition and exercise interventions in improving functional capacity and reducing falls in seniors in community and long-term care settings, injury/falls prevention, cross-cultural study of aging, health beliefs and practices, rural health, health planning process, food security
Research Interests: Aging, psychometric evaluation, long-term care, evidence based practice, pain measurement
Research Interests: Aboriginal health and aging research; elderly women’s health
Research Interests: Longitudinal data, multivariate statistics, robust estimation, quality of life, administrative data
Cluster Leader: Personhood and Resilience in Senior Care
Research Interests: Ethics and philosophy in health care organizational contexts (e.g., decision-making, organizational culture and climate).
Research Interests: Neurorehabilitation, stroke, brain injury, motor learning, motor control.
Clinical Interests: Community exercise and rehabilitation programming.
Research Interests: pain assessment among older adults in community, long-term care, and palliative settings; development and implementation of psychosocial treatment programs for pain among older adults; the relationship between fear of pain and fear of falling in younger and older populations; medical decision making among older adults; cognitive aging
Clinical Interests: The treatment of anxiety and depression using cognitive-behavioural interventions.
Cluster Leader: Indigenous Perspectives on Life and Holistic Health
Research Interests: My primary research interests focus on the role of cultural connectedness for Indigenous peoples’ mental health and holistic wellness. My research projects use innovative blends of quantitative, qualitative, and Indigenous methodologies to increase the relevance of my research for Indigenous communities. I specialize in conducting strengths-based, trauma-informed approaches to community-based participatory research, and decolonized nature-based psychotherapy with Indigenous peoples.
Clinical Interests: Culturally-specific psychotherapy with Indigenous populations.
Research Interests: Osteroporosis, fragility, fracture, nutrition, physical activity and aging, health behaviour change, patient-oriented research, health promotion/health education knowledge translation.
Research Interests: Rural and remote dementia care, early assessment and diagnosis, barriers to use of services, and primary health care.
Research Interests: Older adults and ageing; Compassion and empathy in nursing practice; Inclusive curriculum design in higher education; Participatory Action Research (PAR), Social isolation and loneliness
Clinical Interests: Prostate cancer in Asian men
Research Interests: Healthy aging in place, Older adults quality of life, Black older adults social connectedness, Racialized older adults social connectedness, Cohousing community and older adults quality of life.
Research Interests: Trauma, mental health and wellbeing of vulnerable groups; Clinical practice with focus on the aged and children; Nursing education.
Clinical Interests: General nursing practice
Research Interests: History, Theory & Philosophy of Psychology, Qualitative Research, Methods Research Ethics
Research Interests: Lifelong learning, health promotion, volunteerism, gerontology, cross cultural awareness, traditional medicine.
Research Interests: Nurses’ health, mental health, wellness, nurses’ work.
Congratulations to #URegina's @DrThomasHadjist, newly elected as a Fellow of the @src_rsc. His groundbreaking work is improving care for older adults with #dementia and chronic pain worldwide.
📺 Watch the video below, and learn more in Discourse: 📖 https://bit.ly/3WWYQbC
Two #URegina researchers have been elected Fellows of the @src_rsc — the country’s highest academic honour. 👏
Congrats to Dr. @rncarleton and @DrThomasHadjist, whose research is improving lives across Canada and beyond.
Learn more in Discourse:
Two U of R academics honoured | Discourse Magazine
Two University of Regina researchers elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
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📅 Mark your calendars! Join us on Dec 10 for a webinar that explores how building design & operation can protect older adults’ health against extreme heat and wildfire smoke events.
🔗 Don’t miss out—register today: https://shorturl.at/IQwQg
Deeply honoured to join the Royal Society of Canada. I am grateful to an extraordinary team of collaborators and trainees who have helped advance our research on pain in dementia. Proud of what we’ve built, and motivated for what’s next.
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
