ABSTRACT
This chapter sketches out involvement with personal care and support, through its organisational arrangements, legislative frameworks, programmes and objectives. It emphasis on the care of those who are physically disabled as a more detailed example of what the Malaysian approach has come to mean in practice. The chapter provides information about recent and current changes affecting family life and which may have implications for the future of community care. It considers issues relating to the financing of community care. The Government has recently introduced a community based rehabilitation programme (CBR), an approach supported by WHO. This is a strategy within community development for the rehabilitation, equalisation of opportunities and social integration of all people with disabilities. The chapter provides a description and analysis of a number of trends in population and family formation and constitution that may come to have more or less effect upon community care.
