Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much.

Veterans Affairs committee  Multidisciplinary teams, which are established by governments or funded by governments, do the visits into individuals' own homes and meet with families and the individual care recipient to go through those assessment processes, and certainly that's beneficial. More and more wit

Veterans Affairs committee  There are always ways that you could improve programs. Certainly for the veterans themselves, it's getting access to information easily. So a single-referral access point would certainly be beneficial for the veterans themselves. Having a multidisciplinary team approach to asse

Veterans Affairs committee  Lots, yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  We've worked with research institutes all across the world in terms of issues around older people.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's hard to make direct comparisons country by country, because health care systems operate differently, but if I talk about some good models or good practices, the move is away from residential care. The move is for governments not to be involved in the delivery of residential

Veterans Affairs committee  What is shown through the provision of home care services is that traditionally when people were looking at moving to nursing homes or long-term care facilities, 15 to 20 years ago, they were seen as accommodation options. Mom can't cope at home anymore, because Dad's gone; it's

Veterans Affairs committee  There have probably been a number of research projects around the differences of how health care or home care is delivered, whether it's federally or provincially. You're talking about municipalities having 20-year visions and federal governments having four-year visions. I thi

Veterans Affairs committee  In a number of countries where they've developed single access points for veterans with information on services, they would generally have that information available for widows. One of the issues in many countries is that once the veteran dies the widow is quite generally entitle

Veterans Affairs committee  There is a mechanism to track veterans. You're not always going to get feedback or access to veterans. I'll make a point. My father was a Second World War veteran. He never belonged to any returned service league association, but he was known as a veteran because he held a gold

Veterans Affairs committee  Certainly I can talk about some strengths—and weaknesses. The Australian system is a national health care program. The entire health care program is nationally administered and delivered through the state or territory governments, but it really is controlled at the federal leve

Veterans Affairs committee  It's not that. If you're in a rural or remote area you certainly are disadvantaged in terms of access to health care. It doesn't matter what country you live in. It's the same everywhere. It's a question of what services are available to get people to health care services and wha

Veterans Affairs committee  Could I make one quick point?

Veterans Affairs committee  There is always, I think, a disadvantage when you package up the health care needs of older people as opposed to the care needs of older people. If you're talking about medical interventions and if you talk about leaving people in long-term care facilities, the amount of medical

Veterans Affairs committee  In terms of my organization, we classify senior...it's a life course. It is a life course approach to aging. So if we were in Sierra Leone, I don't think any...actually, there are a couple of males who are under the age of 37 here, but all the rest of us would probably be dead. S