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Current articles on AI, digitalization, and trends in home care.
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Resources & Guides
Explore our guides, articles, and whitepapers about AI-driven scheduling and digitalization in home care.
Start with care needs and visit planning, then explore staffing, routes, field work and the measures that connect them. Each guide keeps its own question and evidence in focus.
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Guides
Step-by-step guides for optimizing home care operations with AI and digital technology.
Comparisons
Objective comparisons between different systems and solutions for home care.
Help Center
Detailed product guides that show how Caire solves onboarding, continuity, diagnostics, and optimization readiness.
MCP – connect your AI assistant
Connect to public calculators without an account, or to your organisation’s planning with sign-in.
Route optimization for home care
How Caire plans visit routes: less travel, more client-facing time, and the planner approves every proposal.
Routing science
Thought leadership on how route optimization balances travel, continuity, skills, and human review.
Calculate my savings
Estimate savings from better efficiency, continuity, and route planning.
Popular resources
Comparisons · 4 min
Recurring routes and dynamic visit planning
From reusable route patterns to automatic visit planning that follows change.
Articles · 11 min
A day in Swedish home care, 2026
Everyone does their best, and still the day falls apart. An ordinary day in home care, hour by hour, with sources.
Articles · 6 min
What does a home care planning system cost?
How home care planning systems are priced, what drives the total cost and what Caire costs.
Articles · 5 min
Free schedule analysis: how it works.
How Caire's free schedule analysis of one selected period works.
Articles · 4 min
Connect an AI assistant to Caire with MCP.
Connect compatible AI tools to available planning data and prepare reviewable proposals.
Articles · 8 min
AI scheduling in home care: a practical guide for planners
What does AI scheduling mean in home care? A practical guide to inputs, human review, measurement, and rollout.
Articles · 7 min
Reduce travel time in home care without losing continuity
Practical ways to reduce travel time in home care through geographic planning, the right measures, continuity, and route follow-up.
Articles · 8 min
Staff planning in home care: from capacity gaps to better care time
A practical model for staff planning in home care: capacity, demand, skills, shifts, and follow-up.
Articles · 7 min
Carefox and AI scheduling: how a complementary workflow works
How home-care organizations can complement Carefox with AI support for schedules, routes, continuity, and reviewable proposals.
Articles · 7 min
Unassigned home-care visits: causes, actions, and follow-up
How to analyze unassigned home-care visits and distinguish capacity gaps from constraints, time windows, and poor inputs.
Articles · 9 min
Schedule optimization for planners: how care time and travel time connect
Care time and travel time are governed by the same planning variables. Three levers to lower travel time and raise care time at once, without overloading staff.
Comparisons · 6 min
Carefox and Caire – roles in home care planning
Compare the roles: plan in Caire, keep Carefox for documentation and journal. Optional one-way GET of planning data. The planner approves every proposal.
Articles · 9 min
When the body says no, but the mind says yes
Björn Evers was diagnosed with MS at 35. After 5,000+ home-care visits he founded Caire — care first, AI as enabler.
Articles · 18 min
Routing science in home care: balance travel and continuity
How modern route optimization balances travel time, continuity, skills, time windows, and human review in one connected schedule.
Articles · 10 min
Så kan hemtjänsten nå 80% brukartid – utan att tappa kontinuitet
Evidensbaserad modell för att nå ~80% brukartid och stärka personalkontinuitet samtidigt – med fyra konkreta steg, KPI-definitioner och räkneexempel.
Articles · 16 min
Effective Constraint Management in Homecare Scheduling Optimization
How to balance hard and soft constraints in home care scheduling. Caire's three-layer model, the KISS principle, and strategies that handle 85% of all conditions with time windows alone.
Articles · 12 min
Kontinuitet och Effektivitet i Hemtjänsten: AI-Optimering
Forskningsartikel om AI-optimering av hemtjänst. En verklig tvåveckorsplanering i Stockholmsområdet gav 5,67 unika vårdgivare per brukare och 79,1 % brukartid.
Articles · 13 min
Balancing Efficiency and Continuity in Home Care
Better planning is not a choice between lower travel time and better continuity. The right model makes both goals visible, configurable, and operationally realistic.
Articles · 14 min
Travel time and continuity in one optimization model
How mathematical optimization makes trade-offs between travel time, continuity, and clear scheduling measurable for each run.
Articles · 18 min
VRPTW home care optimization: visit coverage and travel-time trade-offs
How Caire uses VRPTW algorithms and home-care-specific constraints to compare visit coverage and travel-time trade-offs in optimization runs.
Articles · 15 min
AI Scheduling Revolution
How AI revolutionizes scheduling in home care and what it means for future care organizations.
Guides · 8 min
Optimize Home Care Schedule
Learn how to optimize your home care schedules for maximum efficiency and staff satisfaction.
Guides · 12 min
Prepare for AI Home Care
A comprehensive guide to prepare your organization for AI-driven home care planning.
Comparisons · 12 min
Home Care Scheduling Systems
An objective comparison of leading scheduling systems for home care and their features.
Comparisons · 6 min
Excel vs AI Scheduling Comparison
Compare traditional Excel scheduling with AI-powered solutions
Guides · 10 min
Effective Staff Planning
Strategies and methods to optimize staff planning in home care.
Articles · 8 min
Future Home Care Trends 2030
A deep dive into the technological and organizational trends that will shape home care in the coming years.