| Abstrakt: |
The Evergreen is a microsimulation computer program intended for strategic planning of welfare and health services for the elderly. The Evergreen software consists of a main file of about 200 variables (databank of services for the elderly), with four planning models added (the laissez-faire, normative, humanistic and economist model), together with a correcting and updating program. The program enables systematization of different policy strategies and their consequences in terms of the number of clients, the resources required for the service system in personnel, funds and room as well as in terms of costs both in total and per head. Primarily it is suited for local and national-level planning, but is also applicable to regional planning. The Evergreen is operable in IBM-compatible microcomputers with the absolute prerequisite of a hard disk with at least 5.9 megabytes of free memory for software files and operation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
