What we know is that older women are under-studied as a cohort, so in many of the studies we bring in demography only in a way of weighing out different aspects, but not the experiences of women themselves. I commend to you the research report, which we support, by the Canadian Centre for Elder Law, which I know presented to you earlier.
When you look at the experiences of older women, you see they are often experiences, as my colleague has mentioned, of poverty, abuse and challenges with family caregiving with the multi-levels of marginalization they experience. There are very few studies done on the experiences of older women, perhaps with the exception of some of the work by Dr. Lynn McDonald. CARP has been calling for the experiences of older women to be studied much more.