Accessible Home

Living

Buying an Accessible Home: A Guide to a Senior’s Options
Planning For The Worst

Living

Get Real and Face Up To Planning For The Worst
Caring Long-Distance

Living

Caring Long-Distance: How Best to Help a Loved One from Afar
Digital Health

Living

Ageing Adults Have The 2nd Highest Adoption Of Digital Health Tech

Health

Fitness For Seniors
5 Ways To Greater Senior Vitality & Fitness

Without physical activity, older people tend to grow weaker in 4 key areas; strength, balance, flexibility and endurance. [...]

How To Cope With Caregiving
How To Cope With Caregiving For A Loved One

Caring for a loved one is a serious commitment. Anyone who chooses to become a caregiver should be given support they need to prepare for their role and avoid poor [...]

Care Manager
Care Managers: Who Are They & How Do They Benefit My Loved One’s Care?

A Care Manager is the custodian of their client’s – be it the patient or family caregiver – healthcare journey and lead them through the healthcare process. Here, we've outlined [...]

Should you really pluck out your grey hairs? Here are the facts

Plucking large amounts of hair may permanently damage the hair follicles and lead to bald spots. [...]

For a good, free workout, take the stairs

Stair-climbing is a fantastic, free way to get a cardiovascular workout and strengthen muscles in your lower body, without the need for any skill, training or sporting prowess. [...]

Be careful of ‘bad’ fat and high cholesterol levels

High blood cholesterol can affect anyone. Based on the latest 2015 National Health and Morbidity Survey, it is estimated that 47.7% of Malaysian adults 18 years and above have hypercholesterolaemia, [...]

Thoughts on superfoods (and antioxidants) – Part 2

So where does all this information leave us? Well, hopefully with a little less enthusiasm for overdosing on “superfoods” and especially antioxidant supplements – the evidence suggests that they won’t [...]

Thoughts on superfoods (and antioxidants) – Part 1

What can be pretty annoying are things which are extravagantly marketed despite the fact that they cannot possibly match depicted expectations. One such item is a fad called “clean eating” [...]

Find Your Anchor To Fight Depression

Did you know mental disorders will be the 2nd biggest health problem in Malaysia by 2020. That is 4.2 million Malaysians having depression and anxiety disorder. Check out the infographic [...]

You’re Not Just ‘Growing Old’ If This Happens To You

By Judith Graham, columnist at Kaiser Health News. When Dr. Christopher Callahan examines older patients, he often hears a similar refrain. “I’m tired, doctor. It’s hard to get up and [...]

Food That Promote Brain Health

Experts agree that keeping our brain stimulated and healthy is our best preventive measure to minimise chances of developing the dementia and Alzheimer’s. One of the major factors in doing [...]

Memory loss – is it dementia or pseudodementia?

IF YOU are a spouse or a caregiver for an elderly person, you may be familiar with instances where your partner or dependent misplaces their personal belongings, repeatedly asks or [...]

Lifestyle Programme

ACP CAFÉ: CONVERSATIONS & A CUPPA

Talking about Advance Care Planning (ACP) can be a tough affair, but nothing breaks the ice like a good cuppa! At ACP Cafe, we will have an open discussion about your values and preferences for care in a relaxed environment.

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Silver Fitness Programme

A unique approach to wellness for men and women in the second half of life, designed to keep you fit in years to come.

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Living

Accessible Home
Buying an Accessible Home: A Guide to a Senior’s Options

When you are in the market for senior-friendly accommodation, there can be many things to consider. Before deciding whether you want to modify your home or move to a more [...]

Planning For The Worst
Get Real and Face Up To Planning For The Worst

Declining health will eventually catch up with us all as we age, thus planning ahead will give our loved ones some peace of mind. [...]

Caring Long-Distance
Caring Long-Distance: How Best to Help a Loved One from Afar

Caring for a loved one from afar can be tricky and complicated; not only do you want to ensure they have the best care, but it’s also important to help [...]

Digital Health
Ageing Adults Have The 2nd Highest Adoption Of Digital Health Tech

Despite having the greatest demand for healthcare services, the chronically ill older people are the least likely to leverage digital health technologies. [...]

Advance Care Planning (ACP) Among Friends
Advance Care Planning: Making Decisions Today for Your Future

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you. If you haven’t considered an Advance Care Planning, you should do so now. [...]

Technology
Tech Care: How Technology Is Driving Innovation In Aged Care Delivery

Advancement in technology is changing care delivery; enabling the ageing populace to enjoy better quality of life and smoother care experience. [...]

House Lost Due To Hasty “Kuasa” When Son Kicks Out Mother

Grandma Tan was a picture of hopelessness and remorse as she sat slumped on the chair, staring blankly into space. Had she not been ignorant of wills and trust, Grandma [...]

Resort-like Senior Housing
Choosing The Right Housing For Ageing Family Members

As you age, looking for housing options is different from looking for a normal property. You need to know the essentials of senior housing and ensure you are getting your [...]

Marriage Neither Made In Heaven Nor In Law

Non-Muslim traditional marriages before 1 March 1982 need not be registered at the Registry of Civil Marriages and would be considered legitimate in the eyes of the law. However, all [...]

Adventurous In Old Age
No Reason To Fear Old Age

Avoiding the subjective feeling of being old is easy. It is simply a matter of continually adapting to new challenges, such as physical and cognitive decline. To do this, we [...]

Relationships
Healthy Relationships Needs Honest Communication

Asians tend to seek help only at the eleventh hour. Do not wait until things get bad, use counseling sessions as a way to keep their relationships healthy. There is [...]

Quarter Life Crisis
Quarter Life Crisis: How To Handle It

As a counsellor, I have seen many young adults come in claiming that they are depressed. From my perspective what they might actually be experiencing can be termed as ‘quarter [...]

Money

Woman Distressed Over Funds
Funds To Care For Ailing Parents

Are your parents protected in their old age? As we grow older, our parents may get progressively weaker. By setting up a trust fund, the fund set aside could be [...]

Family Disputes
Financial Caregiving: How To Handle Family Disputes About Ageing Parents

Financial matters are one of the main sources of conflict among family caregivers. This is especially so when siblings or other family members disagree on how funds are spent. If [...]

Dementia
Paying For Dementia Care – How to Plan Ahead

In Malaysia, the estimated number of dementia cases is projected to reach 261,000 in 2030 and 509, 000 in 2050. It is prudent that we consider our potential encounter with [...]

Will and Last Testament
When Having A Will Is Like Not Having A Will

When a person passes on without informing anyone about the will he or she has written, the family situation becomes volatile due to inheritance disputes. Situations like this renders having [...]

Affordable Housing
Paying For Aged Care: Supporting Ageing-In-Place With Healthcare & Affordable Housing

Affordable housing is more than merely the ability to pay off the house loan. It’s also being able to meet long-term care costs – such as assisted daily living, rehab [...]

Care
Paying for Care: Can Malaysians Afford it?

The retirement lifestyle is all the rage these days. While choosing either to age in your own home or move into a retirement village is a matter of lifestyle choices [...]

Payment Options
Paying For Aged Care: Trends & Challenges

To fully capitalise on the trend of self-directed purchases of services, we need to work out the flaws in our aged care infrastructure – namely our payment options. [...]

estate planning
Estate Planning in Real Life: Why It Matters To You

Estate planning is not just for the wealthy. It is for anyone who has any level of wealth and wishes to bequeath convenience, comfort and privacy to their loved ones [...]

Rising Costs of Living
6 Top Habits To Beat Rising Costs

The rising costs of living is deaf to complaints. We would have to deal with rising costs with real action - action that directly affect our finances and ability to [...]

Customers
Customers need freedom and opportunities for old-age provision

Years of persistently low interest rates with virtually no prospect of returns have hit security-oriented savers hard. As a result, many are questioning if they can continue to rely on [...]

Man reaching for money bills under a box representing scams
Scams: Why do we fall for it?

Why do people keep getting scammed again and again despite the red flags? Some may be inclined to say that if you haven’t learnt your lesson from the first time, [...]

Investing for Retirement – Local or Abroad?

Your retirement fund is critical to ensuring your quality of life and ability to live with dignity as you go down the journey of ageing. Hence, your decisions to make [...]

News

Eastpring Investment Market Bulls Symposium
Market Bulls Still Charging

Investors planning to stay in an aged care facilities in old age should be discipline in taking profits and setting aside some cash for the future. [...]

Advance Care Planning
Taking Heed of Advance Care Planning

Advance care planning is important to ensure that your preferred care and old age wishes are met with accordingly and sufficiently for the future. [...]

International Women's Day
International Women’s Day 2018: Pressing for Progress for Older Women in Malaysia

A woman is so much more than that. They are the backbone of the family and the guardians of wealth, knowledge, values, traditions and the cornerstone of multigenerational unity. [...]

ACH Group Vision Of Providing Care To Diverse Markets
ACH Group To Provide Care To Diverse Markets With Age Care Group

“Australia is one of the most ethnically diverse societies in the world today and as an aged care provider, we need to continue to learn how to cater for such [...]

ACH Group
Aged Care Group signs MoU with ACH Group, South Australia to Deliver an Innovative Care Model in Malaysia

Witnessed by the Honourable Zoe Bettison, Minister for Ageing, the MOU affirms ACH Group would lend ACG their experience and knowledge in developing senior living housing, aged care facilities and [...]

Taiwan
Through the lens of Taiwan’s Elderly Care

Taiwan is considered more advanced in its elderly care services and is said to be facing a social time bomb as its population ages. However for a country such as [...]

Managedcare & ReGen Rehabilitation International Signs MoU – Providing Greater Accessibility to Care

The MOU between Managedcare and ReGen Rehab International is a cooperative endeavour to achieve specific objectives that enables public to easily find the appropriate care services they may require and [...]

healthcare
Healthcare: how human-machine teams beat robots

As robotic and artificial-intelligence (AI) systems become more advanced, will they eventually render doctors and nurses obsolete, with patients consulting a computer instead? [...]

Old
Growing Old Gracefully

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) began its 50th birthday meeting in Yokohama this May brooding about growing old. And where better to discuss “Aging Asia” than Japan: where adult diapers [...]

puzzle to represent social protection aspects
Social Protection For A Senior Inclusive Malaysia

Many have come into contact with the aged care system and are often left wanting, not for lack of the aforementioned reasons, but due to the lack of the necessary [...]

Empowering Aged Care’s Legal Framework In Malaysia

Enforcement is not a box-ticking exercise, checking if you have done this and that and saying if you are breaching the law or not. It comes down to our society’s [...]

Pavilion Kuala Lumpur Launches Pavilion Silver Société

Pavilion KL today launched Pavilion Silver Société, a new exclusive program for the silver society targeted at Malaysians 55 years and above. Pavilion KL will endeavour to collaborate with major [...]