In home health care (HHC) operations, nurses are scheduled and routed to perform various
services at clients' homes. As this often requires a combination of vehicle routing and …

Abstract Home Health Care (HHC) agencies aim at providing care and/or services to
patients, at their homes, ensuring a quality of service at least equivalent to that given in a …

The efficient deployment of resources in home-based care is considered crucial for the
sustainability of health and social care systems worldwide. The aim of this study was to …

Due to the ageing population and the prevalence of chronic diseases, Home Health Care
(HHC) practices are significantly increasing in developed countries to provide coordinated …

Home health care or home care (HHC/HC) refers to the delivery of social, medical and
paramedical services to clients in their own homes. Each day, care workers start from the …

In the service industry, it is crucial to efficiently allocate scarce resources to perform tasks
and meet particular service requirements. What considerably complicates matters is when …

Over the last years home dialysis has become the preferred treatment option for some
patients with kidney failure. However, determining efficient and effective daily home-dialysis …

This paper addresses the solution methods for the stochastic home-caregiver scheduling
and routing problem which arises in many service industries such as home care and home …

In this paper, we address the problem of planning the patient flow in hospitals subject to
scarce medical resources with the objective of maximizing the contribution margin. We …

While home services are a fast growing industry, little attention has been given to the
management of its workforce. In particular, the productivity of home-service technicians …