Continuity Between Planning Periods in the Home Health Care Problem

Daniela Lüers () and Leena Suhl ()
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Daniela Lüers: University of Paderborn
Leena Suhl: University of Paderborn

A chapter in Operations Research Proceedings 2015, 2017, pp 217-223 from Springer

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Home Health Care; Shift Type; Vehicle Rout Problem With Time Window; Nurse Rostering; Nurse Rostering Problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42902-1_29

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