{"id":2718,"date":"2025-08-07T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/wp\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:30:32","slug":"aging-gracefully-in-malaysia-how-to-plan-your-finances-and-medical-care-with-living-wills-trusts-poas-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/07\/aging-gracefully-in-malaysia-how-to-plan-your-finances-and-medical-care-with-living-wills-trusts-poas-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Aging Gracefully in Malaysia: How to plan your finances and medical care with &#8216;living wills&#8217;, trusts, POAs and more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, financial planning experts at a Bar Council forum urged Malaysians to plan early for ageing and set up a \u201cPlan B\u201d, including buying healthcare insurance while younger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also warn that Malaysians should be careful if they are using a Power of Attorney to prepare for their daily care or financial needs, since it can be revoked if they become mentally incapacitated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts also suggested Malaysia explore long-term care insurance, as seen in Japan and the Netherlands, with the 13th Malaysia Plan mentioning this as a possible future policy direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the detailed article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malaymail.com\/news\/malaysia\/2025\/08\/07\/ageing-gracefully-in-malaysia-how-to-plan-your-finances-and-medical-care-with-living-wills-trusts-poas-and-more\/186220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, financial planning experts at a Bar Council forum urged Malaysians to plan early for ageing and set up a \u201cPlan B\u201d, including buying healthcare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}