Health committee  Yes, absolutely. We collaborate. We share data. We share best practices.

Health committee  Many provinces are doing that. Some of them have their own Alzheimer's strategy. Some of them are focused on Alzheimer's under a seniors strategy. There's actually a lot going on across the country in terms of serving people with Alzheimer's and doing things to keep seniors healt

Health committee  Physical activity--keeping seniors active through engaging them in group walks so that they've got social interaction while they're being physically active at the same time. That's a major part of a number of programs. The work we do through ParticipAction is also helping to adva

Health committee  The mechanism that we use to share best practices is the Canadian best practices portal, which is a web-based portal that is on the Public Health Agency of Canada website. It gathers the best practices that have been evaluated and identified in various topic areas such as injury

Health committee  Sure. Our surveillance system on chronic disease does track chronic disease rates and risk factors across the country. So we're able to identify areas where there seem to be higher rates of certain diseases or risk factors, and therefore help our provincial and territorial collea

Health committee  I have to thank you, because you've just made my point about the whole-of-society approach. Within the federal jurisdiction, there are things we can do, but there's a lot more that needs to be done under other jurisdictions as well. The access of seniors to affordable nutritious

Health committee  That's a good question. It's a tough question. We are still learning a lot about delaying onset of neurological conditions. Even beyond that, keeping seniors active and providing them with opportunities in their communities and in long-term care facilities, keeping their brains

Health committee  You're absolutely right. We have a major public health challenge with our aboriginal population and we come at that challenge through a number of mechanisms. Let me give you some examples. Through Health Canada's First Nations and Inuit Health Branch there is an aboriginal diab

Health committee  I'd be glad to. Let me start by talking about the partnerships we have within the Americas region, with our colleagues in Caribbean countries and Latin American countries. There's a network of countries that we work with called the CARMEN network. These countries work together t

Health committee  And on the research on Alzheimer's disease, if I can say quickly, to Ms. Duncan's point, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research is providing exceptional leadership in an international partnership around Alzheimer's disease to bring the world's best researchers together to acc

Health committee  The conversations with the business community have largely focused on food and beverage as a first step because we're concerned, obviously, around the healthy eating dimensions of healthy seniors and healthy Canadians overall. The conversations are around how the food and beverag

Health committee  I haven't found a strategy that I would tout as the best strategy for long-term care. What I will tell you, though, is that a chronic care model was developed by a researcher named Wagner, in the United States, and it's called the Wagner model. It has been expanded and extended,

Health committee  Yes, actually, we do. Many Canadians have pre-diabetes. They have not been diagnosed with diabetes, but they are on that cliff and are about to move over. We've developed a risk assessment tool called CanRisk, which has been adapted from a Finnish tool, actually, and which help

Health committee  Of community action to promote health of seniors beyond the age-friendly communities....

Health committee  Okay. Particular cities that are going a good job...? I'm not aware of them, but Cathy...?