Health committee  I would suggest that the age group that should be approached should contain those who are most impressionable, if you want to make an effect. We will be impressionable for various reasons at various ages. But I see no reason why education regarding healthy living shouldn't begin

Health committee  In a typical practice? Is that what you're referring to?

Health committee  Again, I'll go back to my comment about the age of the practitioner. In my practice, I would say that over 50% of my patients are over 40. With a young grad, they may see more younger families.

Health committee  I think he addressed it to the Canadian Chiropractic Association. Lower back pain is incredibly prevalent in our society and generally starts in middle age, often occupationally, and can continue in a chronic manner. Geriatric lower back pain, or back problems, can have many di

Health committee  I don't think I should be the poster child for problems with healthy living. That is a lifelong problem. People tend to go toward pleasure and away from pain. That is pretty universal behaviour. So until the message either gets through well enough or people have a scare, they t

Health committee  From a slightly different perspective, where fee for service is an issue with your question, in Ontario there is no provision for lower-income people to access chiropractic care and have it funded, since funding was withdrawn in 1994. That makes it difficult when you're looking a

Health committee  If I may draw from personal practice, I will be brief with this. I will give you an example of a 65-year-old woman who came into my office about two years ago with general bone pain. She was also diabetic. She hadn't had a bone density test in almost ten years. We phoned up the p

Health committee  We have a lot of arthritic patients. I asked my husband, who was a chiropractor before he developed early dementia, if he had noticed that our practice was getting older, and he said “Have you noticed that we are?” We tend to see people our own age and a few family members. Art

Health committee  I'd like to start with an appreciation of the question. You finished your question with how could we prevent chronic disease. I'd like to first make clear that as one of the primary care practices, it would always be a collaborative approach. We've all spoken to essentially the

Health committee  I mentioned three. We have more, but one program that has been very successful has been the falls prevention program. This was developed in conjunction with Canadian Public Health. This is a program on CD and on paper, which is presented by chiropractors to long-term-care facilit

Health committee  Those were our introductory remarks. I'll be glad to answer anything in the question period.

Health committee  I'm sure John will contribute later.

Health committee  Madam Chair and members of the Standing Committee on Health, Madam Clerk, and colleagues, thank you for inviting us here today to have the opportunity to be with you again. The issue of chronic disease related to aging is both serious and growing. More than 90% of adults over th

Health committee  I'm sorry, I don't understand your question.

Health committee  Everyone here has voiced that this will only work if it is collaborative. Particularly on any public health issue, which this is, you must be able to discuss it with the health care provider of your choice. We have to all work from the same page and the same information or else y