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Ron Beleno

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Adjunct Assistant ProfessorHealthUniversity of Waterloo

Ron Beleno

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Health

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Supervision signals

Adjunct, part-time and visiting faculty usually co-supervise alongside a core faculty member.
17 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2019.

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Publications

246

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Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Waterloo profile.

Intersectionality Mixed Methods Patient-Oriented Research Race And Ethnicity Sex And Gender Unpaid Caregivers Wellbeing Agitation

Latest papers

Conceptualizations of compassion in the context of dementia caregiving: A scoping review protocol
PLoS ONE · 2026
Readiness for scale up following effectiveness-implementation trial: results of scalability assessment of the Community Partnership Program for diabetes self-management for older adults with multiple chronic conditions
BMC Health Services Research · 2025
Navigating the dementia caregiving journey: A scoping review protocol of interventions and their responsiveness to caregivers' evolving needs across the illness trajectory.
PloS one · 2025

All 30 publications

Latest funding

Patient-oriented scale up and spread for enhanced patient-centred care
CIHR · 2019 · Principal investigator
$99,974
Designing assistive technology that cares: Dissemination of knowledge generated by a multidisciplinary workshop to explore the holistic needs of family caregivers and care recipients
CIHR · 2017 · Co-investigator
$20,000

All 2 grants and awards

30 publications.

Conceptualizations of compassion in the context of dementia caregiving: A scoping review protocol

Kokorelias KM, Simpson R, Beleno R, Cameron J, Dove E, Kuluski K, McAiney C, Munce SEP, Quinn K, Saragosa M

PLoS ONE2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0357411

Readiness for scale up following effectiveness-implementation trial: results of scalability assessment of the Community Partnership Program for diabetes self-management for older adults with multiple chronic conditions

Northwood M, Chambers T, Fisher K, Ganann R, Markle-Reid M, Yous M-L, Beleno R, Gaudet G, Gruneir A, Leung H

BMC Health Services Research20255 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s12913-025-12378-5

Navigating the dementia caregiving journey: A scoping review protocol of interventions and their responsiveness to caregivers' evolving needs across the illness trajectory.

Kokorelias KM, Stall NM, Wasilewski M, Gignac MAM, Rittenberg N, Singh H, Dove E, Harris M, Beleno R, Naglie G, Cameron JI

PloS one20252 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0333475 PMID: 41026750

Rehabilitation Outcomes and Experiences of People Living With Dementia: A Mixed-Methods Study

Ally MZ, Casey J, Devitt R, Filinski J, Marple R, Beleno R, Kadri Z, Hussain Z, Jones A, Straus SE

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2024.105460

Consolidated Principles for Equitable and Inclusive Digital Health and Virtual Care Co-Design.

Voorheis P, Major J, Stinson J, Beleno R, Ferris C, Gray CS

HealthcarePapers202410 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.12927/hcpap.2024.27275 PMID: 38482654

EXploring Patterns of Use and Effects of Adult Day Programs to Improve Trajectories of Continuing Care (EXPEDITE): Protocol for a Retrospective Cohort Study.

Hoben M, Maxwell CJ, Ubell A, Doupe MB, Goodarzi Z, Allana S, Beleno R, Berta W, Bethell J, Daly T, Ginsburg L, Rahman AS, Nguyen H, Tate K, McGrail K

JMIR research protocols20242 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.2196/60896 PMID: 39213024

EXploring Patterns of Use and Effects of Adult Day Programs to Improve Trajectories of Continuing Care (EXPEDITE): Protocol for a Retrospective Cohort Study (Preprint)

Matthias Hoben, Colleen Jean Maxwell, Andrea Ubell, Malcolm Bray Doupe, Zahra Goodarzi, Saleema Allana, Ron Beleno, Whitney Blair Berta, Jennifer Bethell, Tamara Daly, Liane R. Ginsburg, Atiqur Rahman, Hung Nguyen, Kaitlyn Tate, Kimberlyn Marie McGrail

20241 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.60896

Older adults’ experiences and perceived impacts of the Aging, Community and Health Research Unit-Community Partnership Program (ACHRU-CPP) for diabetes self-management in Canada: a qualitative descriptive study

Yous M-L, Ganann R, Ploeg J, Markle-Reid M, Northwood M, Fisher K, Valaitis R, Chambers T, Montelpare W, Légaré F

BMJ Open202314 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068694

Mental health and well-being of unpaid caregivers: a cross-sectional survey protocol

Parry M, Beleno R, Nissim R, Baiden D, Baxter P, Betini R, Bjørnnes AK, Burnside H, Gaetano D, Hemani S

BMJ Open20238 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-070374 PMID: W4316036230

Barriers in Health and Social Care Access and Systems Navigation among Older Adults without Advocates: A Scoping Literature Review and Framework Synthesis

Lucy M. Kervin, Indira Riadi, Stephanie A. Chamberlain, Kelly Teo, Ryan Churchill, Ron Beleno, Lillian Hung, Theodore D. Cosco

Journal of Population Ageing20238 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s12062-023-09430-9

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Ron Beleno

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Conceptualizations of compassion in the context of dementia caregiving: A scoping review protocol

Readiness for scale up following effectiveness-implementation trial: results of scalability assessment of the Community Partnership Program for diabetes self-management for older adults with multiple chronic conditions

Navigating the dementia caregiving journey: A scoping review protocol of interventions and their responsiveness to caregivers' evolving needs across the illness trajectory.

Rehabilitation Outcomes and Experiences of People Living With Dementia: A Mixed-Methods Study

Consolidated Principles for Equitable and Inclusive Digital Health and Virtual Care Co-Design.

EXploring Patterns of Use and Effects of Adult Day Programs to Improve Trajectories of Continuing Care (EXPEDITE): Protocol for a Retrospective Cohort Study.

EXploring Patterns of Use and Effects of Adult Day Programs to Improve Trajectories of Continuing Care (EXPEDITE): Protocol for a Retrospective Cohort Study (Preprint)

Older adults’ experiences and perceived impacts of the Aging, Community and Health Research Unit-Community Partnership Program (ACHRU-CPP) for diabetes self-management in Canada: a qualitative descriptive study

Mental health and well-being of unpaid caregivers: a cross-sectional survey protocol

Barriers in Health and Social Care Access and Systems Navigation among Older Adults without Advocates: A Scoping Literature Review and Framework Synthesis

Patient-oriented scale up and spread for enhanced patient-centred care

Designing assistive technology that cares: Dissemination of knowledge generated by a multidisciplinary workshop to explore the holistic needs of family caregivers and care recipients

Frequent collaborators

Dan Lizotte

Merrick Zwarenstein

France Légaré

Amanda Terry

Daniel Lizotte

Bridget Ryan

Sharon Straus

Amédé Gogovor

Marie-lee Yous

Zahra Goodarzi

Judith Brown

Miriam Stewart

Carrie McAiney

Jacqueline Kueper

Moira Stewart

Rebecca Ganann

Jean-Sébastien Paquette

Kimberlyn McGrail

Melissa Northwood

Maureen Frances Markle-Reid

Linda Lee