Status of Women committee  Please, for today, if you would like to take one, my colleague will make them available.

Status of Women committee  I believe you've asked two key questions. One is the integration question and the second is the education or outreach question. On the integration question, I think you raise wonderful opportunities. It is true that when funding or programs are fragmented across several entities

Status of Women committee  I'm so proud to say no. For registered nurses, no. Unfortunately, Quebec is not an official member of our organization, but we have many linkages with our Quebec registered nurse colleagues. I would further add that we have 43 associate and affiliate or emerging groups of nurses

Status of Women committee  I'll start and then invite Josette, who has experience on the front lines in implementing some of this, to comment. First of all, the kinds of tools that are coming from the projects we've talked about are directed specifically to health-care workers in the long-term care settin

Status of Women committee  I must tell you that I am profoundly grateful to the Public Health Agency of Canada. They partnered, for example, with the Community Health Nurses of Canada. That is one of CNA's affiliate and associate groups of nurses. Through that partnership, they made it possible for the Co

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. I'm so pleased with the question because I have seen the TV ads. In particular, I'll speak to those. There is one most profoundly affecting ad in which there's a gentleman who is with an elderly woman. He takes money forcibly from her. She offers him

Status of Women committee  That is a wonderful question, and very comprehensive, and I really want to do it justice. If I may take the liberty, I will say that we will respond to these questions in writing as well afterwards, where we can be much more comprehensive. All of these projects and programs that

Status of Women committee  I'll answer the easiest questions first. First of all, yes, it is a reality in our seniors communities and in our seniors population. There is a rising incidence of seniors committing suicide. The reasons they commit suicide are probably as diverse as those for any age group in

Status of Women committee  I would be remiss if I were giving you the impression that I favour one or the other. They both have a very important place in our care system. Private organizations have opportunities to influence their pricing and their admission criteria in ways that aren't in place in public

Status of Women committee  I regret that I, too, don't know it as well as I would like to, but what I do know from my experience as a home care nurse and also from nursing in general is that the kinds of tools that Josette has talked about and that I've talked about in reagrd to the PEACE program lend them

Status of Women committee  May I add to that very excellent response that what we would like you to focus on, what I ask you to look at, is the situations in which we have bylaws or requirements that registered nurses be on site in long-term care facilities for at least one shift a day or that they constit

Status of Women committee  Let me begin and then invite Josette to respond. This is why we need so very badly to have a well-resourced public health nursing system. It is proactive visits by public health nurses that can help caregivers cope with the very real strain of caring for vulnerable elderly in th

Status of Women committee  I would say it's both, absolutely. Number one, it tells us that this in an important place to put our resources, our interest, and our focus. Number two, it gives us a baseline from which we can measure. The problem with that baseline is simply that there's a whole lot of abuse w

Status of Women committee  It's a difficult question. I would always go back to at what point we're targeting the interventions. As we teach people about elder abuse across the age spectrum.... We should be starting to teach people in grade school, to be honest with you, from my perspective. In that case

Status of Women committee  Is it specific statistics that you're talking about?