Veterans Affairs committee  That's right.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much. I really appreciate that feedback. If we are going to serve all veterans, we need some additional people on the council, because we need people who have expertise in health and services for younger people, who would reflect the age group of the Canadian For

Veterans Affairs committee  I think, to the extent possible, you try to reach common ground on that. That's one of your jobs as somebody who's doing assessments, to seek the view of the individual veteran and the caregiver of what their needs are. Frankly, in our experience there, in many cases they're like

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much. I have appreciated this opportunity.

Veterans Affairs committee  I would agree with you that, first of all, a needs base should help us eliminate a lot of the paperwork and the red tape. I know you've talked about this previously. I think the ombudsperson will be useful. I'm not sure it's possible to make a perfect system or to have any syst

Veterans Affairs committee  If I'm understanding the question, I think it is likely that a lot of the direct care staffing is going to be outside of the Veterans Affairs system, that there will be contracts with people rather than direct care staff added to Veterans Affairs. That's probably true for physici

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm a nurse, not a physician. I have done a lot of work in administration. I've held a lot of administrative positions. As a council, we're making recommendations for what Veterans Affairs needs to have in place—the people resources, the communication lines, the screening tools,

Veterans Affairs committee  I think the biggest challenges are recruiting and training the early intervention specialists. That's huge. Second is reshaping the role of the area coordinator and adding more into that pool to move them to being more interventionist as care coordinators. That role has already

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. We're learning that now. That is what I'm going to refer to as the deployment research, which showed that you don't have to have a physical injury in order to have long-term effects of military service. Simply being in military service and being deployed has the potential to

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely.

Veterans Affairs committee  It is not likely to be a registered nurse. We need the registered nurses mainly for the care coordination and the hands-on care. We saw this person as being probably a graduate of a program like physical education and health. There's a lot of health promotion in those programs,

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Veterans Affairs committee  That could happen. Let me say that there may be veterans who are currently in the VIP program, for example, in which there's a caregiver, and who should be part of an activity program or a nutrition program, etc. The area care coordinator would refer that person to the early inte

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I agree.

Veterans Affairs committee  I think we're all subject to the limitations of our provincial health care systems. There are excellent aspects of these systems but also limitations. I think there are definitely gaps at this point in time. I'd say home care may be one of the least well-developed sides of our