Thank you.
Certainly the areas you touch on are ones that are very important. As we have over the last decade or two in Canada focused much more on the family members and friends who are providing care to frail seniors, we've begun to think about what kinds of things would support them in the work they are doing. Fewer and fewer older adults in Canada are in nursing home settings. So as you say, most of the care is being offered to people at home. Many of the services that you talk about that are being offered in Quebec certainly are things that can make a tremendous difference to families in their ability to take on this task.
One of the things that we highlight particularly in the Keeping the Promise report is the question of housing, which you talk about, and that having more housing options, including the ability to adapt one's own home or the home of a child, if that's where you're living, can make a very big difference in people's ability to stay out of nursing homes. What we'd like to avoid, if possible, is people's placement in higher levels of care than they need.
As you know, the services available to caregivers vary tremendously across the country. So I cannot comment specifically on what is available in which locations, but this is a very important issue on the agenda, I think, of most provinces, and certainly of Veterans Affairs, which is to think about families and support those members who are providing care to older adults and to veterans.