TAILIEUCHUNG - 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. | Healthy Aging Clinical Care in the Elderly Libertas Academica FREEDOM TO RESEARCH ORIGINAL RESEARCH OPEN ACCESS Full open access to this and thousands of other papers at http . 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 A. Ranotsi1 and S. Aiyuk2 Department of Nursing Department of Environmental Health National University of Lesotho . Roma 180 Lesotho. Corresponding author email ranotsi@ Abstract The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of pension money on access to health and selected foodstuffs on the elderly population residing at the Manonyane area in Roma Lesotho. A descriptive design was used. A sample of 215 pensioners was drawn from 830 registered pensioners in Manonyane. Respondents were aged 70-years and above as 70 is the age when they begin to receive pension. A survey questionnaire developed by the investigators for this study was piloted and administered in the field by trained field workers. The findings of this study showed that pensioners used a large percentage of pension money on seeking health for themselves and their families in addition to the purchase of food and alcohol. Keywords impact pension access health foodstuffs Healthy Aging Clinical Care in the Elderly 2012 4 27-31 doi This article is available from http . the author s publisher and licensee Libertas Academica Ltd. This is an open access article. Unrestricted non-commercial use is permitted provided the original work is properly cited. Healthy Aging Clinical Care in the Elderly 2012 4 27 Ranotsi and Aiyuk Background of the Study The Kingdom of Lesotho is an independent democratic nation situated in the Southern part of Africa. It is a landlocked enclave completely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is a small country covering a land area of approximately 30 000 square Kilometers. The

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