Ageing in Malaysia: Progress and prospects

Introduction This chapter updates and extends the review of national policies on ageing in Malaysia provided by Ong (2002), with a current review of how Malaysia is putting in place policies and programmes to address the challenges of ageing. Malaysia is a multi-ethnic country with a population of 27.17 million (Department of Statistics Malaysia 2007) made up of three major ethnic groups: Malay, Chinese and Indians. It is a fast industrialising …