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    Calendar, solutions, and follow-up

    How to review the calendar first, compare solutions, and use analysis for the next action.

    How Caire fits together

    Caire is an operating system for home care. The service area sets the planning boundary. Care plans, visit templates, time windows, groups, dependencies, priority, and preferences become visit demand. Employees, shifts, skills, availability, and cost become capacity.

    When a schedule is created, Caire materializes that data into dated visits and an eligible employee pool for the period. ESS sizes or builds shift supply, FSR assigns visits and routes, and the solution exposes metrics by schedule, employee, shift, client, and visit.

    For the customer, the value is not the analysis itself. It is that the planner can see what needs to be added, moved, or changed when reality shifts.

    Start in the calendar

    Once a solution exists, review starts in the calendar. First check that visits land at the right time according to the care plan. If the schedule is wrong in the calendar, percentages for continuity, efficiency, and cost matter less.

    The calendar shows every visit in context: client, caregiver, time, route, continuity color coding, and manual changes. Planners can drag and drop visits, adjust times, and remove sick-listed staff.

    Full-screen calendar shows the solved day with visits, employees, and times.
    Start in the calendar to see whether visits land correctly before interpreting metrics.
    Map and calendar show routes, stops, and scheduled visits together.
    The map gives route context when reviewing the day's visits and employee movement.

    When the day changes

    During sickness or capacity shortages, Caire can show a ranked replacement list and help the planner create a scenario or a new optimization. Today's replacement list is based on skill coverage, same service area, and not already being on the shift; richer signals such as cost, continuity, and bottlenecks should only appear when they are available from solution or diagnostic context.

    If staff is still missing, the planner can run a new optimization where less time-critical visits move within their flexibility or to the next possible time according to the operation's rules. Caire recommends and informs, but does not apply the change without planner approval.

    Compare and analyze

    The comparison page shows two solutions side by side so planners can see what actually changed. Analysis views show detail per employee, client, and visit: minutes, percentages, travel time, visit time, and how much each employee spends on visits.

    With complete data, Caire can first create a planned schedule that shows how many employees are needed and which care plans should be adjusted. After that, updating the schedule in real time becomes straightforward as the day changes.

    Comparison between baseline and CAIRE solution with metrics.
    The comparison shows which outcomes improved or worsened between solutions.
    Metrics and calendar show solution efficiency, continuity, and visit outcomes.
    Metrics next to the calendar connect percentages to the actual schedule.