Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, that certainly has been one of the drawbacks to the current set of eligibility criteria and the focus specifically on the individual veteran, not on his family.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  That's a very good question. I think part of what we hope this new approach to services might take into account are cultural differences, not only community settings but cultural differences. First nations people have a particular kind of tradition. Older adults who come from di

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you so much.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  One of the things we found in the work we did for the department on rural Canada is that different kinds of services are more important to people, to older adults and to older veterans, in different kinds of situations. For example, if you are someone who has reasonably good heal

Veterans Affairs committee  That's a difficult question. There are of course some people who don't wish to have services. One of the frustrations we found among service providers in the research that we did was among those people we came to call “stoic”. You probably know them: these are people who really a

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  In the research that we did for the department in rural communities, we were not focused particularly on mental health, so I can't address your question directly about PTSD. Certainly we met with veterans, some of whom were very active and engaged and quite well, and others who

Veterans Affairs committee  I would expect that you may know more about this issue than I do. The only thing I could say is that we now have a great deal more knowledge about mental health problems than we did 50 or 60 years ago, so that many of the mental health problems of people post-Second World War lik

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  This is one of the questions that gerontologists have been wrestling with for some time now, the question of whether each cohort or group of older adults is going to be the same. In some sense, I think in general, we would say yes. People do, throughout life and as they grow olde

Veterans Affairs committee  From our interaction with the department, that's the idea on which they'd been attempting to provide services to veterans, given their complex eligibility criteria these days. So I think the benefit of the doubt is something they have been trying to use over the last number of ye

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm impressed at the timing of your research.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.