Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good afternoon, Ms. Gibson. We're glad to have you here as well as, certainly, your presentation in raising the whole issue of mental health and its importance in terms of this particular study.
I just have a question. I was struck when Health Canada appeared before us and they listed a couple of statistics. I don't know exactly what they were now—I don't have the paper in front of me—but they said that the vast majority of the elderly in a certain category said they were in good health when they were asked. Then there was another statistic that said, basically, in the same group there was a high percentage with at least four chronic diseases they were managing and a higher percentage dealing with at least one chronic disease, but still when asked how they would view their overall health, they said it was very good.
So I asked them that question, and they said that was a state of mind. I still feel a statement such as “I'm in a good state, even though I have four chronic diseases” is quite interesting. Could you speak to that at all?
My second question would be this. Because we're talking about veterans and we're targeting programs around veterans, we know there are going to be certain similarities between elderly or seniors or the aged and veterans as a subgroup. But if we're talking about veterans specifically and we're talking about programs targeted towards veterans, we know some of them are going to be similar to what you would do for similar types of populations. Is there anything specific that we should be addressing for elderly veterans, which make up the vast majority, so that our resources, time, and efforts are more targeted?
Those would be my two questions.