Health committee  I want to comment on how the health care system can provide that transfer and that connection with the community. We talk about an acute event: a broken hip, a stroke, or a seizure. There is a project happening in Toronto--and I'm sure it's happening elsewhere also--called “virtu

Health committee  No, in fact we were partnering with the Yee Hong home to provide some caregiver support seminars. You don't really know what you don't know until you have to confront it. Do you know how to help somebody with a broken hip? Can you change a bed with somebody in it? Do you know how

Health committee  We haven't done the research ourselves. We rely on institutes like CIHI to help us with that kind of research. But certainly it bears doing research to see what the cost is. In individual emotional terms, it's quite obvious. There are both the perceived mistreatment and the real

Health committee  I'm not sure that I entirely understood the question. I was trying to listen to both languages, and that was a mistake. On the issue of foreign credentials, most certainly there is a need to recognize foreign credentials. Foreign-trained professionals provide an opportunity to b

Health committee  We certainly encourage healthy aging, in all of its aspects. Through our membership benefits we try to encourage them to join fitness clubs. We get them member discounts, to ensure that people who are in fact selling these kinds of services to help people stay healthy and engaged

Health committee  From the caregiver perspective it is thought that even people with dementia can age at home. However, the ability to do so requires both the expertise of properly trained home-care workers and adequate training for the family. Those two things in the case of dementia—even if ther

Health committee  The way I understand the health accords, but for the fact that the federal and provincial ministers actually agreed on the accord, no federal funds would have flowed from the federal government to the provincial government, since health care is exclusively a provincial jurisdicti

Health committee  The issue of how people are treated with their medications.... Geriatric medicine doesn't carry a lot of panache. And even though many of the provinces have given extra funding for people who take on older patients, nonetheless, doctors do not encourage it. My own brother is a GP

Health committee  You're absolutely right. We get complaints from our members all the time on that very issue. Their concern--whether warranted or not, and here's the evidence issue--is that they feel not well treated within the health care system. Already there's a lot of confusion and mystery, a

Health committee  I would be pleased to answer that. The importance of the health accords was their focus on five major strategic choices that would in fact improve on the delivery of health care overall. That was the last set of accords. The opportunity now arises to not necessarily add lots mor

Health committee  Thank you very much. I could say all of the above; indeed, all of those points are extremely relevant. We have talked with our membership. We are engaging with them all the time, and we do focus on the fact that lots of work has been done around the country in a patchwork. There

Health committee  Thank you very much, and thank you on behalf of CARP, a national non-profit, non-partisan association of about 350,000 members across the country. We have 50 chapters now across the country. We advocate for public policy changes that improve the quality of life for all Canadians

Human Resources committee  You have raised a number of points concerning this issue, as also in previous questioning; that is, the concern about people's retirement plans. In fact, it is upon the lower-income people who have not earned enough pension credits, if they have a pension plan at all to contrib

Human Resources committee  Actually the pilots case is instructive, in that the competency and their safety were tested on a regular basis. They absolutely guarantee that every pilot who's flying the plane is safe and competent to fly that plane. That's a very good example of the kind of workplace testing

Human Resources committee  The news article placed in the papers today indicates the long and torturous process that this whole issue has taken through the courts. And it's not finished. That is why we are asking Parliament to act as quickly as possible. In actual fact that's a misappreciation of the act