Veterans Affairs committee  Stairs.

Veterans Affairs committee  Élisabeth Bruyère actually has a floor that, if you drop an egg on it, the egg won't break. So if a person falls on that floor, they won't break their hip.

Veterans Affairs committee  The Élisabeth Bruyère Health Centre, down by the market. They're testing it.

Veterans Affairs committee  Definitely. At CIHR we have a lot of programs in partnership with pharmaceutical companies. They bring in a lot of dollars, and through CIHR all the dollars are unconditional. They are actually co-funding that whole network about getting research in Alzheimer's disease into actio

Veterans Affairs committee  I know that Dr. David Pedlar, your director of research at Veterans Affairs, has been meeting with the Canadian longitudinal study on aging researchers to decide how best to include a military cohort in this long-term study, because of your population health research strategy. Th

Veterans Affairs committee  I think that's the research also--that you have 39 prescriptions--but I think it's eight different medications when you're over 65. I think that's perhaps a culture of the physician who has very limited time, because sometimes physiotherapy or some other kind of therapy could red

Veterans Affairs committee  No, you're right.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, definitely.

Veterans Affairs committee  I can add something, if you wish. We're definitely developing knowledge at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, but our mandate is also to ensure that that knowledge is applied. We're now offering new fellowships to give researchers the opportunity to develop techniques f

Veterans Affairs committee  I understand those surveys have been piloted. During the development of the protocol for the study over the last two years they were validating certain tools, making sure the questions were understandable, especially when it came to consent and proxy consent and things like tha

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. There are 13 institutes at CIHR, one of which is the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction. They are currently in discussions with Veterans Affairs Canada on partnerships dealing with post-traumatic stress. We have funded exciting work in the past out of M