Status of Women committee  It's a great question. Again, that whole area of non-compliance with medication would fall under the mandate of Health Canada, so I'm sorry but I can't answer.

Status of Women committee  In the Public Health Agency, we take a broader approach to family violence prevention. We have a consolidated place for health professionals to get information with the Stop Family Violence web pages. That's something you might like to check out. We are always worried about the

Status of Women committee  Maybe I'll just answer by saying that this question is best directed to colleagues from Health Canada, because their mandate would cover issues around home care and long-term care. It doesn't come across our desk directly at the Public Health Agency.

Status of Women committee  That's not indicative that maybe the rumblings are not there.

Status of Women committee  Certainly, there is a role in the public health world to ensure that health professionals and other allied professionals are in a position to use the latest data, the latest guidance in a particular public health area. We look to have a number of different options in terms of hu

Status of Women committee  Yes, it's our work with CIHR, to gather some additional information on falls, their prevalence, and why they're happening, because we need to build the evidence base before we can build further programming in this area.

Status of Women committee  Normally, the way I answer the social isolation question is to talk a little bit about the age-friendly communities initiative, which isn't specifically for minority communities, but it is across Canada currently in 1,200 communities. The idea with the age-friendly community init

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  In my remarks, I also mentioned the very recent investment we've made with Parachute Canada to support the pan-Canadian seniors' fall prevention network project. Basically, this will be an online hub where all Canadians and health professionals would have access to fall preventio

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the invitation to address this committee. I'm pleased to contribute to your study by speaking about the role of the Public Health Agency of Canada in addressing challenges faced by senior women. Starting with the current public health picture, the fact that more Ca

Human Resources committee  Just quickly, the basic theory around the social determinants of health is that if you don't have a good place to live, then your health will deteriorate, so, yes.

Human Resources committee  You've actually very eloquently articulated the vision that we have at public health in terms of healthy aging and what that means. It absolutely means being able to contribute and living optimally at all stages of life, including later in life. In terms of something concrete, go

Human Resources committee  It's a very good question. It really should be directed to an official from Health Canada, because it does fall under their mandate.

Human Resources committee  Sure, if you want stats, I can go to my stat book here.

Human Resources committee  I'll give you some basic stats around population projections. In 2015, for the first time in Canadian history, the number of persons aged 65 years and older exceeded the number of children aged 0 to 14. I think this committee knows that. In terms of the proportion of Canadian sen