Human Resources committee  Well, I think we need to right away start putting resources into health services that are combined, that cover the full spectrum, and that are based on principles and standards that recognize seniors. If I could say one last thing, I was going to talk about learning iPods. I've

Human Resources committee  That's probably the best advice I can offer today.

Human Resources committee  I think one of the things that we are starting to do actually here in Canada is to combine hospitals and long-term care and assisted living, creating a community of those facilities. Rather than closing all our tiny hospitals and closing all of those things in small communities,

Human Resources committee  Certainly in my current research project, which is now eight years old, we have Germany, Sweden, Norway, the U.K., the United States—don't go there, especially not Texas, which is where we've been—and Canada. There's no question that we saw some very interesting practices in Germ

Human Resources committee  In our current research, we've abandoned the term “best”. We talk about “promising”.

Human Resources committee  To go back to Raza's answer, I think it depends on what the population is. I do think that if we have a national seniors strategy, it ought to be a strategy that parallels, as we heard earlier, the Canada Health Act, that sets down the standards, rather than standardization. Ther

Human Resources committee  It's partly what I was trying to stress with this committee, that it's about human resources. Human resources has to pay attention to the conditions of work. We are relying increasingly on people from other countries to come to Canada to do this work. It's harder and harder to at

Human Resources committee  Absolutely.

Human Resources committee  First of all, I've been in a lot of really good non-profit homes, or homes that are publicly subsidized. In Canada we have an incredible provincial range. One of the papers out of our project, actually, is on the variation in the fees charged provincially and territorially in Can

Human Resources committee  It depends. So I guess that's an abstention.

Human Resources committee  Yes, absolutely. The problem with minimums, of course, is that they often become the maximum, but without at least a minimum, people aren't getting enough care.

Human Resources committee  I can tell you one difference it would make. Our project has Nordic countries in it, as well as Canada, and a number of years ago we did a survey that we're now repeating on people who work in long-term residential care and home care. One of the things we asked about was violence

Human Resources committee  A host of research has been done, in part by Margaret McGregor and Charlene Harrington, both of whom are part of our research team, and by people here at Bruyère who have looked at hospital transfers, for instance. You're much more likely to have transfers from nursing homes to t

Human Resources committee  I think one of the things we need to do is make it part of the apprenticeship program that doctors and nurses go through. You actually have to do a cycle that is with older people. I think the idea of bringing a seniors lens to all of our strategies is a really good place to star

Human Resources committee  I am also a professor at York University. Thank you for inviting me here today, and for your attention to advancing inclusion and the quality of life for seniors. My presentation is based on my many years of research, which have made it clear that inclusion and quality of life a