Meet to discuss ways to solve ageing problems
PETALING JAYA: If anti-ageing medicine is not implemented soon, the ageing population will be a burden to the Government, according to the Society for Anti-Ageing Medicine Malaysia (SAAMM).
Its president Datuk Dr S. Harnam said as the ageing population grew the demand for nursing homes would increase and this would involve greater government expenditure.
“Ageing is a disease none of us can escape. At the same time degenerative diseases such as cardiac diseases, strokes, arthritis and cancer increase rapidly after the age of 40,” he said in a statement.
He added that all these diseases led to a massive financial burden on the patient, family and nation, posing a serious socio-economic problem.
To deliberate on such issues and seek solutions to ageing problems, SAAMM will hold the First Malaysian Conference on Anti-Ageing Medicine.
At the conference, to be held at Nikko Hotel from May 1 to 3, it will give information on related medical breakthroughs.
Other topics to be discussed at the conference are internal and external degenerative changes and how to treat them with hormones, nutraceuticals, and aesthetic and cosmetic procedures.
The conference is endorsed by the Health Ministry, Malaysia Menopause Society and the National Sports Institute.
SAAMM is a non-profit medical society formed in 2002 by a group of medical specialists from various fields of medicine dedicated to the prevention and treatment of age-related diseases.
For details and registration, call Dr Aman Kaulsay at 012-215 3210.
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