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Continuity Between Planning Periods in the Home Health Care Problem

In: Operations Research Proceedings 2015

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  • Daniela Lüers

    (University of Paderborn
    University of Paderborn)

  • Leena Suhl

    (University of Paderborn)

Abstract

Home health care providers face a complex routing and scheduling task to plan their services because their clients stay at their own homes. As the solution of this task may be inefficient or infeasible for a subsequent planning period, a new optimization is inevitable at the end of each period. The consideration of continuity in multi-period planning by avoiding extensive changes between periods is essential to ensure client and nurse satisfaction. To address this issue, we consider the home health care problem in a rolling planning horizon. Our heuristic solution method determines a new plan while preserving the continuity between periods. Since there are many possibilities to quantify continuity, we compare different measures and show their impact on the solutions.

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  • Daniela Lüers & Leena Suhl, 2017. "Continuity Between Planning Periods in the Home Health Care Problem," Operations Research Proceedings, in: Karl Franz Dörner & Ivana Ljubic & Georg Pflug & Gernot Tragler (ed.), Operations Research Proceedings 2015, pages 217-223, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:oprchp:978-3-319-42902-1_29
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42902-1_29
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    Cited by:

    1. Daniel Badell & Jesica de Armas & Albert Julià, 2022. "Impact of Socioeconomic Environment on Home Social Care Service Demand and Dependent Users," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(4), pages 1-21, February.
    2. Jalel Euchi & Malek Masmoudi & Patrick Siarry, 2022. "Home health care routing and scheduling problems: a literature review," 4OR, Springer, vol. 20(3), pages 351-389, September.

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