Hunger and nutrition and how that intersects with health is one area that CARP has been looking at. We know that users of food banks are often seen as young families. Not to take away from that real and pressing need, we know that the sharp increase in food bank users tends to be due to older women, often older women who have very few financial resources or social connections.
We know that for women who may have good supports in the community, adequate nutrition is often not part of their daily regime, whether they can't get food, whether Meals on Wheels and other types of services aren't necessarily available to them. Whether women in rural communities have increased access is a real question. We're starting some research into this area but I can tell you it's a pressing concern. What we know is that nutrition plays a huge role, not just in terms of health, but also in making sure that we're able to stabilize quite prevalent conditions such as diabetes.