IN 2023, Japanese researchers revealed a chilling pattern: over a decade, an older person was killed every eight days by a relative overwhelmed by caregiver fatigue – an outcome of exhaustion, despair, and a society unprepared for ageing.
Malaysia is not Japan, yet we are closer than we think. Our demographic clock is ticking faster than our institutional readiness, and the care burden is no longer a question of if, but how prepared we are to manage it.
