Status of Women committee  We have a youth-focused culture. I think that's pretty obvious. I wonder whether, if we looked really closely, it wasn't there before also. I don't know offhand. I would guess that some of these prejudices have always been around. I think what's really important now is to start t

Status of Women committee  Yes. It's back to social isolation.

Status of Women committee  I absolutely agree with that, and that was why one of my first recommendations was that we look at a program to address ageism. It's a really hidden “-ism”, one that people don't think about. It's very embedded. If you just watch a few commercials and think about ageism, you will

Status of Women committee  I think there would be a number of programs. Again, I would start by suggesting that we look at options in other countries, because it's always best to see what has worked. That said, we have some interesting federal programming for children in our country that came out of Ca

Status of Women committee  For international examples, you always look to the Nordic countries and to England, and to some programming in Australia. We could get back to you with some of those examples.

Status of Women committee  You've brought up two really great points there, the first point being the increase in fraud and the different ways in which fraud is happening, particularly with social media, and the ways in which the justice system needs to catch up with that, particularly with regard to the t

Status of Women committee  I'll do this very quickly. I come from government, and when I was in government I was involved in creating something called the age-friendly communities program. There's a checklist that exists for that. Some of the issues you've just talked about are on that checklist. I'll g

Status of Women committee  There are a lot of great examples there for all levels of government.

Status of Women committee  My suggestion would be that we do something specific on social isolation and look at the impact on older people. What kinds of programs work? They have some great ones in the U.K. and other places in the world that we can mimic. In the U.K., the doctors are now writing prescrip

Status of Women committee  No, you've covered it well.

Status of Women committee  I'm happy to start with that; and Kiran, you might want to add to it. You have put your finger on a big problem, and there are a couple of issues that we need to unpack within the comments you've made. First of all, in terms of getting information out and unpacking the availab

Status of Women committee  Thank you. “Old bag”, “geezer”, “old maid”, “little old lady”, “babushka”, “old crone”.... It's depressing to google synonyms for older women and try to grasp the rampant ageism embedded in our society against our mothers, daughters, sisters, partners and ourselves. It's a sad