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 …

This paper presents a state-of-the-art review on multi-objective metaheuristics for multi-
objective discrete optimization problems (MODOPs). The relevant literature source and their …

Abstract Generally, in Home Health Care (HHC) logistics, caregivers which are started from
a pharmacy are scheduled and routed to do different care services at patients' home. At the …

Currently, the healthcare of elderly people arouses widespread concerns since the sharp
increase of aging population puts severe stress on public medical resources. Home health …

Today, research on healthcare logistics is an important challenge in developing and
developed countries, especially when a pandemic such as COVID-19 occurs. The …

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 …

In today's competitive environment, one of the most critical objectives for Home Health Care
(HHC) companies is to meet the demand of patients in a timely fashion. According to the …

At present, home health care (HHC) has been accepted as an effective method for handling
the healthcare problems of the elderly. The HHC scheduling and routing problem …

This paper suggests a bi-objective mathematical model, called HHC-MOVRPTW for the
home health care routing and scheduling problem. HHC-MOVRPTW aims to minimize the …

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 …