AIgentiCARE

Background and purpose

Chronic staff shortages and information overload in long-term care facilities affect the safety of older people. AIgentiCARE was born to turn caregivers' daily observations into information that helps them decide in time.

  1. The starting point

    Overstretched care staff

    Staff shortages and high turnover in long-term care facilities cause stress, exhaustion and burnout, with a direct impact on the quality of clinical decisions and on the safety of the people in their care.

    Paradoxically, technology does not always help: poorly integrated systems produce large numbers of irrelevant notifications, known as alarm fatigue, which increase cognitive load and make it harder to spot deterioration in time.

  2. The consequence

    Care that is more reactive than preventive

    This pressure leads to more avoidable adverse events in older people living in care homes: pressure ulcers, delirium, avoidable hospital admissions or inappropriate use of psychotropic drugs.

    Facilities record a great deal of information about each resident every day, but they lack tools that turn it into clear, actionable clinical information.

  3. The experience

    More than a decade of ASIA research in health and ageing

    AIgentiCARE does not start from scratch. It builds on intelligent systems developed and validated in real settings by the ASIA group at the University of Jaén:

    • ADETEM and ACTIVA: anomaly detection and activity recognition in care homes, validated with caregivers.
    • IA2EDP: clinical follow-up and expert-guided natural-language summaries.
    • MicroChip4Age: in-house monitoring devices validated with older people.
    • European projects Remind and Pharaon (H2020), the latter with an Andalusian pilot involving more than 500 older people.

  4. The proposal

    From monitoring to decision support

    AIgentiCARE proposes a shift in focus: from monitoring residents to supporting caregivers' clinical decisions, turning daily observation into structured, prioritised and clinically relevant information.

    Technology does not replace professional judgement or the human relationship; it strengthens them, freeing up time for direct care and contributing to more dignified, personalised, person-centred care.

  5. What it brings

    A new approach

    • It uses caregivers' record sheets as the main source of information.
    • It generates clinical summaries, prioritised alerts and proactive recommendations in one system.
    • It fits into the existing workflow without disrupting the environment.
    • It is evaluated with standardised instruments (MBI-HSS, PSS-14, SUS) and qualitative methods in a real setting.

  6. The impact

    Who benefits?

    Caregivers

    Less cognitive and operational load, better prioritisation and more time for direct care.

    Older people

    Safer, more proactive and personalised care, with early detection of risks.

    Care teams and families

    More accurate records, better interdisciplinary coordination and greater trust in the care provided.

  7. 2026

    AIgentiCARE gets under way

    The project is selected in Fundación ASISA's first call for health research grants and begins its development and validation in a long-term care facility in the province of Jaén.

    Read the grant announcement →