Thank you.
One thing that is lacking here in my program, and that I think is lacking in many places across Canada, is psychological support. You can imagine what that person you were talking about went through in his dark days. In our study we heard the same thing. The people I interviewed had very little in the way of psychological support as they went through those dark days.
I'm not just talking about in rehab or in acute care. We need to be providing psychological supports for people out in the community, and social supports. We need to be able to provide housing. We need to provide accessible housing. We need to provide accessible housing where people can be cared for, as we heard. We need more home care to keep people in the community. For some of my young patients, it's like what we just heard about with regard to personal care homes in the last session. Some of my young patients are living in personal care homes because there is not enough care support in the community for those people.
Then we need to do a better job at some pain management. Pain clinics have very long wait-lists. I mean, sometimes the pain just can't be managed well, but we need to really be managing pain aggressively.