Experts: Ageing In Place Is Best But Not Enough Is Being Done

It was just a day like any other when Associate Prof Rahimah Ibrahim received a call from her mother telling her that her 77-year-old father had fallen and had to be hospitalised.

It was as if a switch had flipped. One day everything seemed normal and the next, the director of the Malaysian Research Institute on Ageing at Universiti Putra Malaysia and her siblings had to face the fact that their parents were becoming more frail. 

With that, came several questions.

Can their parents still live on their own? Would living with one of their children be better for them instead? How about sending them to a care centre? Can they continue to live at home when their house may not be friendly to their aches and pains? 

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