There is another element to be considered: distances can be long in Canada. The more I know about the subject at hand, the more I realize that the majority of services are designed for major centres. In a small village such as my home village of Évain, in Abitibi, which is in Northern Quebec, there are no services. Services are provided informally and we do our best to cope.
How can we solve this problem? I do not believe that an older person should be uprooted from his or her small community and be moved to a major centre in Ottawa, in Toronto or in Montreal. How could we better adapt our services to the needs of older people?