MELAKA, Oct. 28 -- Malaysia's rapidly ageing population is putting unprecedented pressure on families, with doctors warning that dementia care is fast becoming one of the country's most urgent yet dangerously overlooked healthcare crises.

Behind closed doors, caregivers are burning out, resources remain scarce, and the nation is sleepwalking toward a demographic disaster, according to Dr William Lee Wei Kiat, Consultant Geriatrician & Physician in Oriental Melaka Straits Medical Centre.

Malaysia is already grappling with an estimated 200,000 to 216,000 older adults living with dementia today, a figure projected to reach 668,000 by 2050, according to the Malaysian Research Institute on Ageing (MyAgeing). Yet the medical infrastructure re...