Status of Women committee  If I could just add quickly, the program you're referring to, Across the Generations, was actually a Government of Manitoba health department tool they had developed a number of years ago. In collaboration, through the federal elder abuse initiative, we looked to make that a nati

Status of Women committee  Yes, that has happened.

Status of Women committee  Yes, that's definitely true. Part of this report we did on gender-based analysis also looks at the elder abuse of men. They are also subjected to it. They also live with it. It's important to know what the differences are in terms of what kinds of interventions work best with ei

Status of Women committee  If you gear interventions that are misplaced, you will not succeed. That is key. A clear example is women's shelters. Those have not been found to be effective for senior women. One of the main reasons is accessibility to the building and accessibility within the building. If t

Status of Women committee  Yes, and we've talked about the expression “age-friendly communities”. What that means, quite simply, is that many communities are not designed to take into consideration the needs of an aging population, and that's what age-friendly communities are about. It's looking at what a

Status of Women committee  Exactly right. We are very involved in this at the Public Health Agency at this point, the age-friendly communities. We're looking at how the issues we deal with.... And elder abuse is very much one of those issues that fits quite well. I think you can see that some of the risk f

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry, I don't have that in front of me, but it's something I would be happy to table. I would say, though, that those six questions I'm talking about as part of that suspicion index are really for physicians talking to their patients. We do have a resource I could direct yo

Status of Women committee  If there's time and if it would be helpful, I can certainly give you what this document indicates very clearly are some of the warning signs. The first one, and it's pretty straight-forward, is if an older adult tells you they're being abused, believe them. If they've come forwa

Status of Women committee  You've touched on a heartbreaking story, but what you've touched on is financial abuse, which is one of the more insidious forms of abuse against seniors. A lot of the initiatives, the federal elder abuse initiative and some of the ongoing work at Human Resources and Skills Devel

Status of Women committee  I could check to see if I actually brought them with me. I'm not sure that I have.

Status of Women committee  Just to add another piece to that, you were asking about what's currently happening. While the federal elder abuse initiative sunsetted in 2011, HRSDC continues to support elder abuse initiatives through their “New Horizons for Seniors” program and through ongoing research. I'm s

Status of Women committee  That's a good question. Under the public health component of the federal elder abuse initiative, we did undertake to develop a number of resources. I'll break them down into two categories. One is tools or resources that could help a front-line worker such as a doctor or a so

Health committee  Yes. Age-friendly communities are an excellent example of looking within a community as a built environment to what can be done to create conditions for seniors to be more physically active, and to what the barriers are. We're learning things such as lighting, width of sidewalks,

Health committee  Yes, I could elaborate on the World Health Organization, which is a key partner in advancing age-friendly communities. In fact, that's where it started; it was through the World Health Organization and it was picked up by Canada and adopted. They are a key role and partner in thi

Health committee  Yes, if you don't mind me answering.