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Healthy Ageing: We Now Have A Dementia Action Plan, So What Next?

Professor Dr Tan Maw Pin, Consultant Geriatrician, Universiti Malaya Medical Centre | Gan Chong Shyan, Project Manager, Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation Malaysia

07-Oct-24 16:00

Healthy Ageing: We Now Have A Dementia Action Plan, So What Next?

Last week, Health Ministry Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad launched two action plans for elderly care: the Elderly Healthcare Services Action Plan and the Dementia Action Plan. On this episode of Healthy Ageing, we’ll be dissecting the Dementia Action Plan and how it will address the increased risk of dementia in our ageing population - as well as whether the plan lives up to expectations when advocates have been calling for it for years. To do that, we speak to consultant geriatrician Prof Dr Tan Maw Pin from University Malaya Medical Centre and Gan Chong Shyan, Project Manager of Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation Malaysia.

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Produced by: Lim Sue Ann

Presented by: Lim Sue Ann


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