Ah, you're making up.
Thank you very much for coming. I apologize profusely. You've made the effort to get here, and I was a little late. I apologize. Generally, it's constituents who keep us that way, but I wanted to apologize.
I always learn from these presentations and I'm always writing notes and trying to figure out what words to use. Healthy aging and active aging are all important things for understanding how we're going to help everyone enjoy later life.
You go on, Claude, to say: “This approach encourages us to focus our efforts 'upstream'.”
On Tuesday we had a presenter here talking about falls and how important falls are. Later in your document you mention that. And we hear from veterans all the time—and I mentioned this to you today—that part of their problem is they're very hard of hearing: for one reason, because they're elderly; the second reason, we believe, is that simply every veteran we see has pretty well the same issue as a result of their service. They believe a lot of it is involved in their service.
I'll make a comment, and maybe some of you could give your opinion. If we're talking about going “upstream” or about keeping people healthy and active, and if we don't want them to fall, we should be much more prepared to listen to veterans when they need hearing assistance. That alone keeps them from falling, I believe; all of this has been more or less documented.
Is that what you mean by “upstream”: doing something to prevent anything that can happen in the future?