Strategic Plan
The Malaysian Society of Geriatric Medicine's Eight Strategic Pillars for Development of Geriatrics Services in Malaysia.
Pillar 1
Growth in Number of Geriatricians
Increase number of geriatricians each year by a factor of 0.2.
Pillar 2
Geriatrics-trained Allied Health
Develop multidisciplinary teams skilled in the care of older persons.
Pillar 3
Geriatrics Liaison Services
Develop liaison services in orthopedics, perioperative assessments and oncogeriatrics.
Pillar 4
Specialists with Special Interest in Geriatrics
Collaborate with other specialties and medical subspecialties to develop specialists with special interest in geriatric medicine.
Pillar 5
Community Geriatrics Services
Enhance community based services to develop a care continuum.
Pillar 6
Undergraduate Geriatrics Curricula
Lobby for inclusion of geriatrics curricula in all undergraduate courses of healthcare professionals.
Pillar 7
Cognitive and Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments
Enforce the need for cognitive assessments and comprehensive geriatrics assessments for all older patients.
Pillar 8
Bridge the Social-Health Divide
Work jointly with welfare services to bridge the social-health divide.
To support the eight pillars for expansion of geriatrics services in Malaysia, the Malaysian Society of Geriatric Medicine also recommends Six Global Strategies (GS) as cross-cutting measures.
GS 1
To upskill geriatric work- force in leadership management and service development.
GS 2
To conduct dialogues with policy makers affiliated societies and other stake- holders to streamline our objectives and strategies.
GS 3
To boost the membership of MSGM through special interest groups.
GS 4
To develop toolkits to aid and speed up the development of services and implementation of position statements/ guidelines.
GS 5
To ensure inclusiveness of all ethnic groups, with specific attention to our indigenous population.
GS 6
To support, generate and implement research throughout all our programmes.
The MSGM has produced its strategic planning which will hopefully lead us towards comprehensive geriatrics services led by 350 geriatricians by 2030. For a copy of this report, please download either the slide or document version below.
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