Las Tunas branch of the National Statistics Office confirms that this province is the one with the largest life expectancy with 79.83 years, which reveals the values of the Cuban Health System and care for the elderly.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- But this reality places the territory as the ninth among those with the most aging population in the country, with some 115 thousand 700 people over 60, equivalent to 22 percent of its total population; and the trend points to increase while the working active population -between 15 and 50 years- decreases.

The life expectancy of men in Las Tunas is 80.45 years, the highest in Cuba; while that of women is 79.16, only surpassed by Holguín.

There are 20 specialized care facilities for the elderly in the province, of which 10 are nursing homes and the same number of grandparents' homes, which, in general, function organically and have the vital elements of the support strategy to that sector.

The repair and maintenance of these enclosures were planned in the past decade, as well as the construction of new grandparents' houses in the municipalities of Puerto Padre and Jesús Menéndez because are those with the largest number of long-lived, but the program was postponed due to the well-known economic reasons.