NATIONAL SENIORS STRATEGY

We are grateful that this work was originally financially supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Evidence-Informed Health Care Renewal Grant entitled, Creating a Sustainable System of Care for Older People with Complex Needs: Learning from International Experience that was granted to Drs. Samir Sinha and Dr. Geoffrey Anderson in 2013... Meeting the growing and evolving needs of our ageing population will require concerted coordination and effort between municipalities, provinces, with the federal government playing a key leadership role on this issue of significant national importance. Historically, our federal government has been able to play a key role as a standard-setter, catalyst and funder of important social change in areas like the delivery of health care. We believe that in a similar way our federal government can enable the meaningful change that will be needed to meet the needs of ageing Canadians.