The home health care routing and scheduling problem (HHCRSP) consists of designing a
set of routes used by care workers to provide care to patients who live in the same …

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 …

Organizations providing home care services are inclined to optimize their activities in order
to meet the constantly increasing demand for home care. In this context, home care …

An increasing number of companies focus on customer satisfaction to increase the lifetime
value of each customer. In vehicle routing, customer satisfaction is often a result of …

Workforce planning for home healthcare represents an important and challenging task
involving complex factors associated with labor regulations, caregivers' preferences, and …

Home healthcare aims to ensure that ill, disabled, and elderly patients receive high-quality,
personal, and compassionate care. The current study provides a novel hybrid three-phase …

In this paper, for the first time a model-based evolutionary algorithm is presented for a real-
life Home Health Care Routing and Scheduling Problem (HHCRSP). The algorithm …

The transportation science research community has contributed to numerous practical and
intellectual innovations and improvements over the last decades. Technological …

The demand for home care (HC) services has steadily been growing for two main types of
services: healthcare and social care. If, for the former, caregivers' skills are of utter …

The home care and scheduling problem (HCSP) consists on the design of a set of routes to
be used by caregivers that provide daily assistance at specific times to patients located in a …