Human Resources committee  The group of caregivers that we think about are women. That's the first thing I'll tell you, and the literature will support that. The research we do at NICE will support that it is often a very gendered issue. I want to focus for just one second on a group that we work with ver

Human Resources committee  I'll quickly go over some of the risk factors that we have from our own research at NICE. We looked at social isolation within the context of age-friendly communities. That is one of my overall suggestions, that we look at how to empower communities to support older adults who st

Human Resources committee  If we look at it in the bigger picture and the fact that age-friendly communities, compassionate communities, and what we're talking about doesn't happen in a vacuum, and if we have to support those individuals who are going to participate in these communities and provide care fo

Human Resources committee  Sure.

Human Resources committee  I'll make it very brief. There are three points I want to raise about immigrant communities. In our work at NICE, there are two groups of immigrants we're dealing with. There's a group of immigrants who came to Canada a long time ago, who've grown older in Canada; and there's a

Human Resources committee  It's a yes for me.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the committee for having me here today. I'm both a senior research associate at the University of Toronto and the network manager for the National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly, also known as NICE. I'm here today in my capacity as the