Veterans Affairs committee  We have not had a lot of involvement with them in the past. It has been more on an individual level. I've been consulted on a few of the projects with Veterans Affairs, but we have not worked specifically with them on the development of their training programs. We could.

Veterans Affairs committee  My people have worked primarily with the B.C. government, although some of our people have had contracts with the U.S. It's a contract basis. We're very willing and able to work with other groups, and we do try to make sure that there is some knowledge translation from every proj

Veterans Affairs committee  There are a lot of things that are generic. Yes, we have delivery systems that vary by province, but still, many of those services are generic and apply across the board and are translatable from one province to another.

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, it's interesting. This is one project that has captured quite a lot of fancy. The key question is whether they will, in fact, act on it. We've spent the last three years engaged in this age-friendly cities project and getting the design guidelines; what we don't know is the

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, they do decondition faster. One interesting article asked what astronauts, seniors, and people with AIDS have in common. The answer is that all three groups tend to spend time immobilized, and it's that immobilization that.... If you have them in space, where they're not abl

Veterans Affairs committee  Several of the colleges over the years have had programs. Malaspina had a program, and the college in New Westminster; I've forgotten the name of it. They were pioneers in the development of training programs for the care aides. There have been some of those. At my own universit

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. Graduates with our post-baccalaureate diploma or our master's degree literally go through all of the helping professions, so we have OTs, PTs, nurses, social workers, pharmacists--many of the allied health professions.

Veterans Affairs committee  I think it has partnered with the institutes on some projects. This is another area you might want to explore a bit further. I can't give you dollar values or tell you about specific funding programs, but certainly that's a vehicle. You want to find out the special needs and see

Veterans Affairs committee  A high proportion of the deconditioning that occurs happens because of iatrogenic problems, yes. A Harvard malpractice study showed that the number of mistakes made were disproportional in the older population.

Veterans Affairs committee  Some of it is a matter of figuring that older people don't warrant the concern they'd give to others. Some of it comes from not paying enough attention to the fact that you can rehabilitate these older individuals. They're not necessarily a writeoff just because they hit a partic

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't think there's as much emphasis as there needs to be. The geriatrition side, or certainly the Canadian Geriatrics Society, will make the point as loudly as they can. But I don't know that the Canadian Medical Association as a full association is reading the demographics as

Veterans Affairs committee  For those seniors who do want to engage in helping other seniors, there are a number of vehicles. There are seniors centres and some programs that are run through seniors centres. There are some service and demonstration programs that have been done around the country, intergener

Veterans Affairs committee  We do get asked about that. It tends to be the for-profit developer who is the one who asks those questions, mainly because on the non-profit side, while they would like to do some of these things, the first thing that gets cut when it's budget time is anything that is above the

Veterans Affairs committee  We need to make sure policies are in place to encourage those family members who are capable, who are loving, and who are wanting to give service to be able to do so and not at such a high cost that they resent doing it. For example, there are people who would like to stay home

Veterans Affairs committee  It's a problem around the world that has been caused by the drop in the birth rates. Around the world young people are having far fewer children than they used to have. So there is a much smaller supply of family to provide for older people. If anything, that says to us that ther