17 March 2023
Residents at GreenAcres Retirement Village in Ipoh, Perak, speak about living “independently” as they age. Total Investment ED talks about government incentives for senior living.
Tag: aged care
15 March 2023
Malaysia
Proposed Senior Citizens Bill May Impose Penalties For Sending Elderly Parents To Care Homes
The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry supports a proposed penalty for sending parents to care homes, despite having the means to care for them.
14 March 2023
Galen CEO Azrul Mohd Khalib proposes an aged care fund starting at age 45, while UM geriatrician Prof Dr Tan Maw Pin suggests written advance care directives.
13 March 2023
Ipoh Timor MP Howard Lee calls for a carer's allowance beyond RM500 monthly: "Some people are having to give up their M40 jobs to suddenly take care of someone who used to be the main breadwinner. And now you both can’t work. Who cares for the carers?”
22 February 2023
Ipoh Timor MP Howard Lee urges the government to restructure aged care as an economy, instead of seeing it as a cost burden, stressing that the care economy plan must begin today, just in time.
26 November 2022
The Galen Centre says the minister can address a continuum of care, including aged care and reproductive health, by running MOH and KPWKM in a dual portfolio.
24 November 2022
My late grandfather, who died in 2016, was diagnosed with stroke, dementia and Parkinson’s disease. His total medical costs over 4.5 years totalled RM900,000, including the cost of caring for him at home and RM12,000 monthly for care at a facility.
15 November 2022
PH’s Ipoh Timor candidate Howard Lee says that to solve Malaysia’s care and ageing crisis “just in time”, the government must start working on it now, not in three or five years' time.
14 November 2022
Muda proposes a new payroll-funded social health insurance scheme to increase health care spending, similar to EPF and Socso contributions, based on a flexible scale according to income and age.
11 November 2022
Without a full-time doc at Klinik Desa Air Kuning, elderly residents must travel over 15 km to the nearest public hospital for treatment, says PSM’s Ayer Kuning candidate Bawani KS.