Senior Citizens Bill must reflect a society that values dignity and inclusion


WE welcome the anticipated tabling of Malaysia’s Senior Citizens Bill this year. However, urgency must not come at the expense of substance.

As this law will shape the lives of older persons for decades to come, it must be firmly grounded in a comprehensive, rights-based understanding of ageing and not in narrow, medicalised assumptions.

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