Malaysia is expected to become an old age nation by 2030. The psychological problem faced by elderly requires counselling intervention. The objective of this study is to explore the readiness of counsellors in dealing with adult and aging as curriculum and to explore the challenges in providing gerontological counselling. The study was used qualitative approach based on case study of 9 informants on purporsive sampling method and conducted within indepth interviews. The findings showed that level of readiness of counsellor is very high and very interested to dealing with aging client. The main challenges of counselor are no public universities offer courses gerontological counselling in Malaysia. The implication of this study involvement of gerontological counsellor through Malaysian Association of counsellor will attract young counsellor interest in the care of older person.
KeywordsCounsellingGerontologyChallengeReadiness
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