If I may, I'd like to start off the conversation about this.
The word “Alzheimer's” is often used—we say Alzheimer's Disease International and the Alzheimer's Society of Canada—and we've often been asked, “Why don't change your name to the Dementia Society of Canada?” I think we need to recognize that dementia is the umbrella, and that, yes, people with Alzheimer's make up the largest proportion of people with dementia. I think we should talk about dementia, because that's the umbrella, and all the different types of dementia fall under that, although Alzheimer's is the largest.
We're seeing much more now—I think it's because our efforts with good diagnoses—that we're understanding mixed dementias. There are many more mixed dementias. Some people have both vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
I think the naming of the bill is interesting, but from my perspective, I think we're really talking about dementia and being able to care for people with all the different types of dementia. There may be different needs for the different types, but dementia should be the overall umbrella. We should not just focus on Alzheimer's.