Thank you so much for the question, and thank you for sharing your story. I think it's important for us, as officials, to never lose sight of those stories. It's what guides our work.
Let me start with the second half of your question, which was about specific care for families when it comes to those surviving suicides. Unfortunately, we're not, to my knowledge, working on something specifically for families, per se.
One of the things you mentioned was the population spectrum. You are dealing with children and their needs, and seniors and their needs. It's interesting, because yesterday, the researcher at the Douglas Institute in Montreal, who is working with us on this study on the diagnostics, was telling me that in the course of his research he's come to find out that the most important thing to be looking at is how you parent and how you recognize those signs you were talking about. Many of us take it for granted that we would be able to recognize those signs. But even physicians in primary care, and even teachers, for example, who spend so much time with children, don't necessarily, or wouldn't necessarily, recognize those signs.
Our efforts are around working with researchers, and working with parents and their children. Much of the work being done through grants and contributions is in the community setting. They are pilot-testing initiatives that look at better resilience, and at better relationships and how you forge relationships. Even something like social skills can provide a child with better resilience when confronting something later on in life.
With seniors, for example, the challenges are a bit different. Seniors experience isolation. There, again, primary care providers may take it for granted that a person is an adult and is responsible, and should be okay to manage his or her own health at that age. On a personal note, my mother, for example, is experiencing a lot of challenges in her eighties. The Public Health Agency developed a series of guidelines on seniors' mental health for physicians. They are on recognizing the signs and on the means for intervening appropriately and sensitively but nevertheless firmly, so that people are not left feeling that they're alone and unable to confront the challenges in their lives.