If I could just comment, at the Alzheimer Society of Canada we fund two streams of research. Of our research, 50% of our funding goes toward biomedical, so that's cause and cure, but 50% of our research funds also go to quality of life research. So how do we help people who are living with the disease—and their caregivers? How do we help them to maintain their quality of life? It's on the social and psychological side of research, and that's extremely important.
We run a research competition every fall, and we just closed off our competition. We had almost 50% more applications for research funding than we had last year. I really believe that has to do with a lot of the recent visibility that we've had in terms of the disease, the Rising Tide report that has come forward, and a lot of the education and awareness that has gone on. But we have only 10% more funding to apply towards our program this year.
So as good news as it is, there are so many researchers out there who want to do research in this area. They have great ideas, most of them will be peer reviewed—and Jack is the one who leads that program for us—and they will be within the fundable range. But the problem is now we will just wind up disappointing more researchers because we don't have the funds to fund them.