Once again, my CMA president is going to have more data than I will. Acute care is where I live. In acute care, seniors are the main clientele despite the fact that the posters describing our hospital don't have any seniors on them. The Canadian Geriatric Society is a very small society. We have probably 200 geriatricians in this country. We should probably have 500 to 600 geriatricians. We don't have enough physicians trained in care of the elderly—those are family physicians who have an extra year of training.
Overall, if you look at geriatric medicine care of the elderly, the numbers of physicians who have the expertise in dealing with the multiple chronic diseases, who have cross-trained in multiple areas and can deal with cognition, are probably somewhere between 40% and 45% of what we really need. So we're far behind. The earning potential for those groups is lower than their peers', so it's not a competitive speciality. So we're not really getting a lot of residents into these areas. We're falling further and further behind. I would echo the comments that were made before. There's a real mismatch between the training positions that are being offered and what our society needs. The data is not there, but there is a huge mismatch. In geriatric medicine care of the elderly, that gap is growing.
I'm sure Dr. Haggie could talk to the numbers.