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Main CareFlow AI interface
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Nine Wellness Rings
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High-priority safety alert
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Supabase care records
Inspiration
Caring for older family members involves remembering daily observations, tracking healthy habits, following up on important needs, and noticing when something may be wrong. Keeping all this information organized can be difficult for families and caregivers.
I built CareFlow AI — Elder Care Companion to make these tasks easier and help families provide more organized, attentive care.
What it does
CareFlow AI is an AI-powered elder care companion with five key features:
- AI Care Assistant: Turns everyday caregiver messages into organized observations and suggested next steps.
- Wellness Rings: Tracks nine daily habits through simple Yes-or-No questions.
- Follow-up Tasks: Creates tasks to help caregivers remember important checks.
- Safety Alerts: Flags potentially serious situations, such as a fall accompanied by unusual confusion, and provides urgent guidance.
- Family Summary: Brings recent observations and follow-up information together for easier review.
How we built it
I built CareFlow AI using Python and Streamlit. It uses NVIDIA Nemotron through Nebius Token Factory to understand caregiver messages and help select appropriate actions. Supabase stores observations, tasks, and human-attention alerts, while local JSON files continue to support some care-history and fallback workflows.
Challenges and learnings
One of the biggest challenges was turning natural-language messages into useful actions while treating potentially serious situations carefully. I combined AI-based action selection with explicit safety rules for critical situations.
I also learned how to connect an AI workflow to a database, organize care information, and design a simple interface for daily wellness and caregiver coordination.
What's next
Future improvements include more reliable centralized care-history storage, secure family access, and additional safety and reliability testing.
CareFlow AI is a prototype that supports caregiver coordination. It does not diagnose medical conditions or replace professional care or emergency services.
