Monte Carlo Simulation of Medical Resource Allocation

How to spend your money is a difficult question and most easily solved by giving it, with all its worries, to us. As long as this is not yet done, one has to balance at old age the need for medication and other medical support against the need to buy healthy food and other goods needed for survival. We simulate this problem here with the Penna ageing model [1], an implementation of the mutation accumulation theory. A fraction H of individuals is healthy and does not need medication for survival. We assume the fraction 1−H of sick individuals to be their age a, divided by 32, since 32 (in arbitrary time units, depending on the considered species) is the maximum age: a = 0, 1, 2, . . . , 32. (Our Penna model uses 32 bits per bit-string.) H = 1− a/32 . (1)