Status of Women committee  Why is that?

Status of Women committee  We don't want to think that we will put in something that's mere lip service, or just to say, well, there, we have the operation going. So how do we address the specifics of that?

Status of Women committee  That's a shame, because they are both wonderful stories and we could elicit so much good information, but I'll stick to one question. What do you tell your daughter, or have you talked to your daughter, about the kind of choices she might have to make in her life? Is she married

Status of Women committee  What I'm getting at is that some young women I've talked to really want to do it all, and I'm not sure.... My wife couldn't do it all.

Status of Women committee  I never had a question, so can I get one?

Status of Women committee  My wife of 53 years was a teacher, and one of the joys of my life is when former students come up to her and say, “Thank you. You've set me on a path of success” and so on. Can all of you quickly point to a person, a mentor, a teacher or someone? Obviously, you're different from

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, I would ask all of our young ladies, Daughters of the Vote, to become mentors themselves.

Status of Women committee  Jean.

Status of Women committee  What do you recommend for people who feel it's time to think about a hearing device in getting information? One way would be to go to one of the retail providers who may simply want to sell up; whereas the person may simply be wanting to get good information.

Status of Women committee  With regard to the prevention of hearing loss, the baby boomers were the first of the rock-and-roll generation who were warned that all of that loud rock-and-roll music was going to make them deaf. Has that showed up in the longitudinal—

Status of Women committee  I want to apologize because I was a rock-and-roll disc jockey. Sorry about that.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. This is a great topic. On the question of hearing, first of all, one of the big issues with regard to hearing is the cost of hearing devices. There's a lot of confusion about what works. You see ads for things that are $29.95 that are just as good as a $5,000 device.

Status of Women committee  With regard to public health, in observing these older folks in our family, it was obvious on some occasions that incorrect medicines were given because what a doctor suggested was changed by the observation of a nurse. In Hamilton, we have the downtown department of family medi

Status of Women committee  Okay. Eva, go ahead.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. I'll share with Eva. I wish we had more time. It's a great topic. I'm doing my own longitudinal study on aging.