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 functioning and keeping them engaged are important parts of the work that we care about and that we try to facilitate through our funding programs working in partnership with others.
You make a really important point. The federal government can fund particular projects under particular initiatives, but to sustain those we need partners. We need provinces and territories. We need local municipalities to extend them and keep the funding going and keep those programs in place. Our role through things like the Canadian diabetes strategy, our cancer work, and neurological health charities work is to find those innovative programs that work, to determine whether they are best practices, to determine how cost-effective they are, and then to share them as widely as we possibly can and encourage their uptake. We definitely do that.
We have an innovation strategy at the Public Health Agency of Canada that is focused on just that kind of thing. The agency finds those things that are working in jurisdictions, whether they be at the provincial and territorial level or more locally, and then profiles and promotes them on a more wide-scale basis. Our children's programs, for instance--through the community action program for children, through aboriginal head start, although not applicable to your question about seniors—are examples of programs where the public health agency is funding services to kids, which can then be applied more broadly.