Speech by Datuk Aminah Abdul Rahman - International Council on ...

(as pointed <strong>by</strong> a delegate during the recent world family summitheld in Brazil last week).5. Changes in family structures, population ageing, increasingmigration and the HIV/AIDS pandemic are our main concern.The proportion of older persons in the total population hascontinued to rise throughout the world, and it is expected toaccelerate during the next few decades. This will have majorimplications on all aspects of family life, including familycomposition and living arrangements, housing and health care.These trends challenge the family’s ability to fulfill basicfunctions of reproduction, socialization as well as needs offamily members regarding health, nutrition, shelter, physicaland emotional care, and personal development.6. Similarly, Malaysia is on the road to developing its own grewthmodel which incorporates both the Economic and HappinessIndexes. We are pleased that LPPKN, Family Wellbeing Indexhas been utilised for this purpose.4