It's absolutely about prevention, because the earlier we can intervene.... Like K-J, I was on an ACT team. The earlier we can intervene, the less likely it is that people are going to have significant, serious and persistent mental illness over the course of their lifetime.
Each time somebody experiences an episode or a bout of psychosis, their baseline drops, and we don't know if we can get them back up to where they were functioning before, so the earlier we can intervene, the better their long-term outcomes.
In addition, when we look at that, we're looking at the distress of the experience by the person. If we can have services in place that reduce that distress and give them quality of life, that's what we need to look at—the mental health supports and services that are going to support somebody with their quality of life.
At the end of the day, the person has the choice to decide what they need for their quality of life, so, with the same caveat as K-J, I would support MAID services, but we do need those mental health supports and services in place, both on an early intervention basis and on a long-term care and support basis.