NHMS 2025

Not normal ageing: dementia in Malaysia is further along than the numbers say

Close to half the people in our building are living with dementia. Nobody planned for that. Nine days after we ran an Alzheimer’s screening in Melaka, the Ministry of Health released headline findings from the National Health and Morbidity Survey 2025. Dementia in Malaysia now affects 9.8 per cent of people aged 60 and above, […]