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 …

The application of optimization techniques to home care service planning has received
increasing attention, as more patients are in need of dedicated care. Currently, the problem …

The home health care routing and scheduling problem (HHCRSP), a challenging
operational problem in the field of home health care (HHC), consists of assigning suitable …

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 …

The importance of home healthcare is growing rapidly since populations of developed and
even develo** countries are getting older and the number of hospitals, retirement homes …

This paper presents a mixed-integer programming model for a variant of the pickup and
delivery problem with time windows. The fleet is assumed to be heterogeneous with a novel …

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 …

This article proposes a novel dynamic objective function in a multi-period home health care
(HHC) problem, known as the nurse-patient relationship (NPR). The nurse-patient …