Halimatus Sakdiah Minhat1,2,*, Hazwan Mat Din1
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.22, No.4, pp. 283-290, 2020, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2020.012679
- 22 December 2020
Abstract The rapid ageing process experienced by many developing countries,
lead issues and challenges to deal with the highly demanding social care sector.
This qualitative study aimed to explore the understanding and views of the formal
caregivers in Malaysia towards social care for older persons. Series of focus group
discussions were conducted among 57 institutional social care workers at four
public residential care in Peninsular Malaysia based on the identified zones.
Two groups of participants involved, those aged less than 40 years old and
40 years old and above, divided based on the mean age. The… More >