The action of the brigades of health of the Traveling Local Equipment of Extramural Work in Health (ELITES) of the Ministry of Salud (MINSA) with support of the European Community, in benefit of the Peruvians from excluded zones, is little well-known. This service goes back to 1905. As of June of 1998 it was settled down like constant attention. The population of the communities when they became ill did not receive any type of attention, now are taken care of in medicine, odontology, nursing and obstetrics mainly. ELITES supports in the promotion and joint of the services organizing with the authorities of the communities in the formation of the Committees of Communal Development (CODECO). Also, it organizes and enables the health promoters. The members of the equipment arrive at the communities on foot carrying in their knapsacks the basic equipment, medicines and their personal effects...

The greater adult is losing the use of some of his faculties. To certain people the oldness produces rejection to him because it is dealing with individuals that apparently hinder due to the difficulty in walking, hearing and to remember; in addition they are more ready to the diseases. If this happens in the cities, in the Andean zone the situation is more dramatic. The investigation consisted of interviewing greater adults of the Andean communities to expose its situation with the aim that the people in charge can act in benefit of those citizens. They live single or with their pair if they have her, the children have emigrated, the aid is enough due to the distance and the lack of suitable routes of communication, practically lack everything, the poverty is extreme, live in huts, their utensils are artisan old and covered with dust by the little use that they give them. They are fed b...