Status of Women committee  Well, I won't say there isn't any being done. Some researchers are creative enough to have a proposal accepted for consideration by SSHRC, despite the fact that it's really about health care, because they call it something else. I know that CIHR, the other more prosperous fundi

Status of Women committee  I'm sure there could be more awareness. I wish that kinds of funding were somehow more stable, more regularized.

Status of Women committee  I'm not sure I said exactly that, but I would certainly sympathize with that as a perspective. One of the problems with long-term residential care is that it's below the radar. It's below the radar in part because it's not part of what we call medicare--the things that are cove

Status of Women committee  We asked a question similar to what had been asked in the Nordic countries--namely, have you experienced physical violence from a resident or a resident's relative, and how often? The highest answer was daily or almost daily. The next answer was weekly. The next was monthly. It w

Status of Women committee  I think that's quite accurate. One of the difficulties is that the workers are reluctant to report, for a number of reasons—the paperwork, the blame that gets assigned to them, a desire to protect the residents, and a culture that suggests that this is normal, that if you sign up

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  I'll take the first run at it. Until a year ago, I was on the board of the Council on Aging of Ottawa, joined by, among others, Vern White, the chief of police in town. At the initiative of the council, we established an elder abuse network that involved the police and a number

Status of Women committee  It's seven years.

Status of Women committee  The first thing I'll say is that we're not waiting for seven years to issue a report. We're talking with people as we go along. One of my colleagues and I were at the Council on Aging of Ottawa last week. There were 35 or 40 people, all of whom work in this area, and we were ex

Status of Women committee  I'm delighted to tell you that it's the people of Canada, through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We got in just under the wire before SSHRC decided that they weren't going to consider any projects that had to do with health. I think this was a disastrous d

Status of Women committee  It's $2.5 million over seven years. There are 25 co-investigators.

Status of Women committee  We're trying, yes. Several countries--

Status of Women committee  No, I wouldn't. I think it's a different kind of research, more located in the medical profession and in related health professions. It's very difficult for social science and humanities researchers to get money these days. That's what I was speaking to when talking about SSHRC

Status of Women committee  I know there's more money every year, and even in real terms, after inflation, there is more money, no question. It's more a matter--

Status of Women committee  I come from the social sciences. My closest collaborators in our current project and elsewhere are in the social sciences and humanities. We are finding it more difficult. There is more money going into medical research.