Care time
Visible time distribution
See how a proposal affects care time.
Route Optimization for Home Care – compare planner-reviewed trade-offs
More client-facing time, protected continuity, and fewer unassigned visits — planners review every proposal
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The calendar shows visit placement and employees’ working days. Read it together with the planning result and organisational rules.
Travel belongs in the plan.
Calculated journeys between addresses are checked against visit times and shifts, so a shorter route does not hide an unassigned visit.
Modelled from optimisation runs on real home care schedules, not measured customer outcomes. Your result depends on your data.
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Route optimization
Less travel, better continuity, and clearer routing decisions.
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Home care route optimization balances travel, care time, and continuity
CAIRE calculates route and schedule proposals while planners stay in control. It considers geography, time windows, skills, continuity, and unassigned visits without autonomous publishing or replacing records, HR, payroll, or source systems.
- Route optimization
- Optimizing visit order and staff routes.
- Travel time
- Time between client visits.
Challenges with traditional route planning
Route planning in home care is a complex task that often requires consideration of many factors simultaneously. Traditional methods struggle with:
Complex visit patterns
Varying visit times, specific time windows, different skill requirements, and clients who need to be visited multiple times per day create a difficult puzzle to solve.
Manual optimization is almost impossible
Manually planning optimal routes for a team of caregivers who need to visit dozens of clients is mathematically too complex to be solved efficiently by a human.
Changing conditions
Traffic conditions, sick leave, emergency visits, and other unforeseen events require quick adjustments that are difficult to make manually in an optimal way.
High costs of inefficiency
Inefficient routes result in higher fuel costs, waste of staff time, increased environmental impact, and reduced time for actual care.
Before vs. After: Time distribution in home care
CAIRE Route Optimization
Illustrative time-distribution comparison
CAIRE's route optimization technology significantly improves productive care time by reducing travel time, allowing caregivers to spend more time with patients.
Travel
Clear trade-off
Weigh route changes against continuity.
Administration
Reviewable
The planner remains in control.
Before vs After Comparison
Time distribution comparison
Before CAIRE Implementation
Time distribution in home care before optimization
- Productive care time: 70 %
- Travel time: 22 %
- Administration: 8 %
After CAIRE Implementation
Time distribution in home care after optimization
- Productive care time: 75 %
- Travel time: 18 %
- Administration: 7 %
Key Benefits
Improvements from CAIRE implementation
Increased Care Time
Make the effect of a route change on productive care time visible.
Reduced Travel Time
Compare travel time with continuity and staffing before approving a proposal.
This illustration is modelled and shows how travel, care time, and continuity can be weighed against one another. Real outcomes depend on the operation's own data and must not be read as a customer result.
Calculate your potential savings
Use our calculator to see how much your operation can save with CAIRE's route optimization.
Step 1Step 2Step 3
1. Business data
Your current situation
employees
%
kr/hour
employees
Current results
Monthly revenue5 200 000 kr
Costs per month
4 060 000 krGross margin
21.9%Gross profit per month
1 140 000 kr/month2. Expected improvements
Expected improvements
%
%
3. Projected results
Projected results
Projected results
Monthly revenue5 200 000 kr
Efficiency Gain 3.3 %
Increase From 65% -> 68.3%
Per month260 000 kr/month
Admin Cost Reduction 10 %
Reduce From 160 000 kr -> 144 000 kr
Per month16 000 kr/month
Total Savings
Per month276 000 kr/month
Per year3 312 000 kr/year
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Carefox and Caire – planning, not login
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Read more about routing science
Caire Core uses a transparent routing model where continuity, travel, and planner approval are weighed together. For a deeper article, read the routing science guide in resources.
Open the routing science articleOptimize your routes with AI
Contact us to see how our AI-driven route optimization can reduce your driving time and increase care quality.
Contact usSee what your own schedule reveals
Start with one free analysis of a selected period. Understand continuity, time allocation and opportunities to improve, based on the evidence in your reports. Help from Caire is available.
Create an account, accept the terms, the privacy policy and the DPA, and upload your schedule from Carefox or Alfa eCare Welfare. Caire then analyses it.
One analysis of a selected period per organisation, including one optimisation with calendar, comparison and diagnostics for available results. Upgrade for ongoing planning. A paid pilot is a separate choice.
Measures and business-case inputs
See how route optimization for home care – compare planner-reviewed trade-offs supports run-specific comparison
Smart geographical optimization
Analyzes geographical distances and traffic patterns for efficient routes
Time-based planning
Optimizes visit times based on client needs and staff schedules
Balanced workload
Distributes visits evenly among staff for reduced stress