Impact of the Pension on Access to Health and Selected Food Stuffs for Pensioners of the Manonyane Community in Roma, Lesotho as Measured between 2004 and 2006

There has been much discussion in recent months concerning who might be included in the population of “vulnerable” residents. The term “vulnerable” has most often been used interchangeably with the term “special needs.” In the most broad sense as related to disaster management, the vulnerable population refers to those individuals who do not feel they can adequately access the resources they need during all four phases of a disaster: preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. This would encompass a huge number of people and populations, including the elderly, physically handicapped (deaf, blind, disabled, etc), mentally disabled or cognitively impaired, those dependent...