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 …

To cater to the increasing demands, particularly during diseases such as Covid-19, the
design and planning of home health care systems is of significant importance. The current …

In China, family doctor contract service can provide not only the home health care service for
the elderly or patients with mobility difficulties at their homes but also the outpatient service …

Patients are traditionally treated in hospitals and healthcare facilities. However, many care
services known as Home Health Care (HHC) are provided at patients' homes. Despite the …

Home Care includes medical, paramedical and social services which are delivered to
patients at their domicile rather than in hospital. Managing human and material resources in …

In this paper, we focus on a specific operations management related issue faced by home
health care (HHC) services, namely the districting problem. Our contribution consists of …

Home Care (HC) providers are complex organizations that manage a large number of
patients, different categories of operators, support staff and material resources in a context …

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

Abstract Home Care Services (HCS) aim at providing complex coordinated health care for
patients at their homes. This paper addresses the challenges of routing and scheduling HCS …