Yes. Looking across Canada when we do a scan of all nurses—and this is very specific for the bachelor of nursing for registered nurses—we have looked at the content in their curriculum, and I am very happy to see there is still maternal-child education in there and trying to teach nurses how to help moms to breastfeed, which is absolutely necessary.
Ninety per cent of the people in our hospitals and nursing homes are over 85, so they receive additional care. Gerontology is not a mandatory component in our nursing curriculum in Canada, nor is it a specialism or something that people get paid for if they have an additional certification.
I know my colleague Dr. Porter has been a long-standing advocate at the Canadian Association of Gerontology to look at really enhancing the skills of [Technical difficulty—Editor], so if we do not prepare specialists, how do we provide excellent care?