involvement of NGOs. She further informed that currently there were 45 additional senior citizen activity centres after additional 23 centres were established under the JKM. 40. The President of NACSCOM informed that their organisation had 41 members of senior citizen organisations throughout the country and suggested collaboration with the JKM to organise outreach programme for senior citizen in Malaysia. He also highlighted the funding issue faced by the organisation. 41. Dr. Molly suggested that an online training programme could be developed in order to gather feedback from general practitioners/ doctors, to identify gaps and knowledge and to develop appropriate training database from these interested parties. Online training will be cost effective. In relation to the important of having an updated database on older persons as a baseline, she stressed that it could be implemented with collaboration from ministries such as National Registration Department and Ministry of Health who are the custodian of the required information necessary to develop the database. 42. With regard to issues lack of Ehsan Home raised by participant from UUMC to accommodate a large number of sickly older persons, Puan Ruhaini explained that Government’s stand on placement of older persons in institutions should be treated as the last resort with family and community taking the major role in supporting the welfare of the older persons. That said, the Government is nonetheless planning to build another Ehsan home in Bukit Mertajam, in addition to the two existing homes. 43. It was informed by one of the medical practitioners that the Ministry of Health had provided structured programme which included registration and regular screening for older persons and programmes under the National Blue Ocean Strategy. However, the main challenge in implementing this programme is the issue of transportation to ferry the older persons to clinics for medical services and follow up check-ups. REPORT ON CARE SERVICES FOR OLDER PERSONS AND SUPPORT FOR CAREGIVERS 67