Medical assistance for the elderly in Ecuador is limited and in rural sectors absent in community assistance programs.
The " Foundation friends for the old edge", not pretends to assume a total responsibility because of obvious reasons that are of exclusive competence of the state organizations.

The studies about the process of getting old is a matter due to the fact that in the quantity that people get older is less the number of healthy people.

Nowadays, people that reached 65 years, have a better health than his or her ancestors. The idea of the old age, in its conventional but wrong image of a "serious damage after the 65 years-old", can be applied with major property to the population that surpass the 80-85 years old, that principally is feminine since women had a high survival than men.

The care of the increase number of elder citizens and ill people force to a great demand of the traditional systems to care the health, which increase in an unequal way. When the old people presented more illnesses and psycho - social consequences as a complication use more the medical services and the social assistance.

A special attention to their necessities and to their functions can add quality and years to their lives without increasing the costs.

We took the responsibility of making medical attention with modern equipment and qualified personal as an immediately objective of social action, also professional covering will be implanted in the rural sector with brigades of integral health action.
It is important to associate the population health and community sanity programs with debates, conversations, round tables and conferences with the direct participation of the beneficiary population.

FUNDAMAN had strength the medical assistant for the beneficiaries with the participation of important, acknowledged, and professional national private institutions. Also with the signed of agreements about the use of services like tomographies, radiographies, pelvic and abdominal screening tests, bones radiology tests, blood, urine and other tests, etc., with discounts up to 40%.

It is imperative for us to extend our medical attention with modern equipment for the elder people in order to support the increasing number of elder patients that demand an attention according to their requirements.

The demand of professional medical attention raises in number every day.