Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thank you as well to our witnesses for being here.
I want to follow up on where my colleague left off. I believe he was asking a question about prevention and promotion. I guess it can be overwhelming to contemplate the broad range of issues that do need to be considered in creating the conditions for healthy aging, as you mentioned, and addressing the increasing rates of chronic disease in seniors.
You mentioned in your report that chronic diseases continue to be the major health burden of our time. Can you describe for me what the federal government is doing to help seniors prevent and manage chronic conditions such as diabetes, cancer, or arthritis? How does your agency work with different groups to ensure that seniors are able to manage, and often able to prevent, these chronic diseases?