The evolution of government attention towards older person in Malaysia: a critical review of Malaysia 5 years plan

emphasized on life-long learning programs and improve the retirement age of 60 years to promote productive ageing. In the Tenth Malaysia Plan, the government has continuously improved the facilities, provide accessible health care, utilized ICT to disseminate information on public services related to ageing and conducted several programs. The recent and ongoing plan emphasized on the preparation of older person after the retirement phase. This paper concludes that although Malaysia has taken several initiatives to support older person. However, Malaysia is still far behind compared to developed countries such as Japan. Many advanced efforts introduced by Japan such as public pension scheme, and medical plan have served the real necessities of older person. These are among the gaps that Malaysia still lacking and need to emphasis as a preparation towards ageing country status by 2030. (Copied from article