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Best AI for elderly care & care homes

Nursing homes, home care organisations and care for people with disabilities (VVT) are working with fewer and fewer hands for more and more clients. A large part of the shift goes on reporting in the ECD, planning routes and rotas, and walking night rounds. AI is taking over that work: voice-driven reporting turns dictated observations into neat reports, planning software allocates care moments and travel routes, and sensors or smart lamps flag a fall or an unusual pattern of activity without anyone having to watch. There are also digital care assistants that help older people with dementia living at home get through the day with reminders. According to ActiZ and Vilans, voice-driven reporting is the most widely used AI application in elderly care.

Professional tool with the strongest GDPR profileAttendiGDPR: Strong
  • Provider based in the Netherlands
  • Data in the EU according to the provider
  • Publishes certification/GDPR safeguards
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General model: the default choiceClaudeGDPR: Strong
  • Editorial score 9.0 of 10
  • Elo 1506
Claude for elderly care & VVT
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Watch out in this field

You work with special category personal data (health) of vulnerable clients who often cannot consent for themselves. Choose providers with NEN 7510 and ISO 27001, EU hosting and a data processing agreement, and check whether voice recordings are retained or used for training. Cameras and sensors require a DPIA, a case-by-case assessment (care plan, Care and Coercion Act) and clear agreements on who sees images or alerts. Reports drafted by AI remain the responsibility of the care worker: always read them back before saving.

All 25 options

Professional tools with the strongest published GDPR safeguards first, then general assistants by suitability.

25options, 13 field-specific
7free to try
13professional tools from NL or EU
13GDPR strong or good
Strong · 3Good · 6Limited · 4
#SolutionQualityQuality from blind duels on LMArena: users choose between two anonymous answers. A difference of about 20 points is noticeable, a few points is noise. How we measurePriceGDPROur summary of what the provider itself publishes about your data. For a professional tool: whether the data is held in the EU, whether there is a certification or GDPR guarantee, and whether the provider is based in the Netherlands or the EU. For a general model: EU hosting, no training on your data and self-hosting. From Strong to Unknown; Caution only applies to a model with a documented problem. How we measure
1Attendi professional toolAttendi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · NetherlandsVoice-driven reporting for elderly and disability care: spoken notes are automatically converted into case file reports.own modelon requestStrong2Tessa (Tinybots) professional toolTinybots B.V. (Rotterdam, NL) · NetherlandsDigital care assistant (social care robot) for people living at home with dementia or another cognitive impairment. Tessa gives spoken reminders and encouragement according to a personal day plan that the care provider sets up remotely.own modelon request (often reimbursed via the…Strong3G2 Speech professional toolG2 Speech (Best, Netherlands / London, UK) · NetherlandsSpeech recognition and ambient documentation for healthcare, with client- and record-specific templates. Also used in elderly care and home care (VVT) via SpeechAmbient and dictation in any application.own modelon requestStrong4Autoscriber professional toolAutoscriber B.V. (Eindhoven) · NetherlandsDutch ambient scribing platform, founded from LUMC research. Converts conversations live into structured SOEP notes and integrates directly with NL/BE EHR systems such as Medicom and ChipSoft HiX.own modelon requestGood5Kepler Night Nurse professional toolKepler Vision Technologies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · NetherlandsCamera software that detects falls and unsafe situations in care rooms and alerts care staff within seconds.own modelon requestGood6Tell James professional toolSpraakLab B.V. (Nijmegen, Netherlands) · NetherlandsDutch software for voice-driven reporting in long-term care. Care staff dictate their reports; Tell James converts them into written text with paragraphs, bullet points and SOEP structure, directly in the electronic client record.own modelon requestGood7Ecare PUUR professional toolEcare (Enschede, Netherlands; part of Visma) · NetherlandsElectronic client record (ECD) for elderly care, long-term care and mental health care with built-in AI: voice-driven reporting, a digital scribe that converts conversations into structured reports, and smart suggestions for the care plan.own modelon requestGood8TONOS professional toolTONOS Care (Netherlands) · NetherlandsAI planning software for nursing homes, home care and care for people with disabilities. TONOS matches clients' care needs to staff availability and expertise, and optimises the sequence of visits to reduce travel time.own modelon requestGood9NOA professional toolMentech Innovation (Eindhoven, NL) · NetherlandsAI care assistant for people with dementia or an intellectual disability in long-term care. NOA holds conversations about familiar topics, plays favourite music and gives reminders to support the daily routine. Care professionals receive explanations about the care plan.own modelon requestGood10Sensara professional toolSensara (Rotterdam, NL) · NetherlandsLiving pattern monitoring for older people at home, in clustered housing and nursing homes. Sensors in the home learn the client's normal living pattern; if there are deviations or restlessness, the care team receives an alert.own modelon requestLimited11Nobi professional toolNobi (Antwerp, Belgium) · EUSmart ceiling light with AI fall detection for nursing homes and at home. Nobi recognises a fall, alerts the care team, switches on automatically when someone gets up, and provides reports on sleep and activity.own modelon requestLimited12PlanTip professional toolDATIP B.V. (Maastricht, Netherlands) · NetherlandsPlanning software for home care that lets clients choose their own care moments. PlanTip uses AI to select the most suitable days and times based on travel routes, specialisms and staff availability.own modelon requestLimited13InterventieZoekhulp professional toolVilans (Utrecht, NL) · Netherlands · free to tryFree AI search assistant from Vilans, developed with a subsidy from VWS. Describe a care need, such as fall risk or agitation, and get suitable interventions and guidelines from over 2,500 interventions across more than 20 reliable sources. The tool provides an overview, not decision advice.own modelfreeLimited14Claude generalAnthropicFamily of language models from Anthropic that excels at long documents, careful reasoning, coding and reliable, safe output.1506Elo$20 / monthStrong15ChatGPT generalOpenAIOpenAI's versatile, agentic flagship with a very large context window and a broad ecosystem of integrations.1485Elo$8 / monthStrong16Copilot generalMicrosoftMicrosoft's AI layer that combines GPT and Claude models with your own organisational data and the Microsoft 365 apps.1485Elofrom €10 / monthCaution17Le Chat (Mistral) generalMistral AIFrench/European AI lab with open-weight and commercial models and the Le Chat assistant, with EU data residency as its core proposition.1427Elo$14.99 / monthStrong18Gemini generalGoogleGoogle DeepMind's natively multimodal model family, deeply integrated into Workspace, with a very large context window.1526Elo€4.99 / monthStrong19Qwen generalAlibaba Cloud · free to tryChinese model family from Alibaba Cloud with a free chat app, a large open-weight catalogue and the proprietary flagship Qwen3.8-Max with 1 million tokens of context.1484Eloon requestCaution20GLM (Z.ai) generalZ.ai (Zhipu AI) · free to tryChinese AI lab (Zhipu, international Z.ai) with the open-weight GLM family under MIT licence, particularly strong at programming and agent tasks at low prices.1483Elo$18 / monthCaution21Kimi generalMoonshot AI · free to tryChinese AI lab (Moonshot AI) with the open-weight Kimi K2 family and an assistant that focuses strongly on agents, deep research and long documents.1487Elo$19 / monthCaution22Grok generalxAIThe model from xAI, integrated into X, distinguished by real-time access to live X posts and web data.1471Elo$10 / monthCaution23DeepSeek generalDeepSeek · free to tryOpen-weight (MIT) Chinese language model with a 1M context window and a built-in reasoning mode, at very low API costs.1475Eloon requestCaution24Perplexity generalPerplexity AI · free to tryUS AI search engine that delivers answers with source citations via its own Sonar models and external frontier models, with separate Enterprise agreements on data use.–Elo$20 / monthUnknown25Llama generalMeta · free to tryMeta's natively multimodal, open-weight Mixture-of-Experts family (Scout and Maverick), free to download and self-host.–Eloon requestCaution
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Last checked: 8 November 2026 · How we check

How to get started in elderly care & VVT

  1. Try this weekStart free with InterventieZoekhulp on non-confidential work. In an hour you'll get a feel for what AI can do for elderly care & VVT.
  2. Sort the basics (GDPR)Choose the business variant, sign a data processing agreement and turn off training on your data. See the GDPR check per option.
  3. Go deeper with field softwareBook a demo with Attendi: built for elderly care & long-term care, with the strongest published safeguards.

Where AI does the most in this field

The core tasks we track for this profession. Tools in the list above can be compared on these tasks.

  1. 1Voice-driven reporting and consultation notes in the EHR
  2. 2Optimising care planning, rotas and neighbourhood routes
  3. 3Fall detection and activity-pattern monitoring in nursing homes and at home
  4. 4Daily structure and reminders for clients with dementia living at home

Per task in elderly care & VVT

A separate comparison for each task, with the top pick shown.

AI for care documentationTop pick: Attendi5 tools

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What is the best AI for elderly care & VVT?

It depends on your requirements. Field-specific solutions such as Attendi are built for elderly care & long-term care; general assistants such as Claude are more widely usable and cheaper to start with. At the top of this page you will find our picks.

What is the difference between a 'field-specific tool' and a 'general assistant'?

A general assistant (such as ChatGPT or Claude) is a clever all-rounder you talk to yourself. A field-specific tool is a ready-made product for elderly care & VVT, often built on top of such an assistant, with its own domain knowledge, integrations and GDPR arrangements. In the 'Quality' column you can see which model a tool runs on.

May I use confidential data?

You work with special category personal data (health) of vulnerable clients who often cannot consent for themselves. Choose providers with NEN 7510 and ISO 27001, EU hosting and a data processing agreement, and check whether voice recordings are retained or used for training. Cameras and sensors require a DPIA, a case-by-case assessment (care plan, Care and Coercion Act) and clear agreements on who sees images or alerts. Reports drafted by AI remain the responsibility of the care worker: always read them back before saving.

What does the GDPR profile mean?

Our summary of what the provider publishes about data protection: EU hosting, no training on your data, certifications and provenance. 'Strong' = several safeguards published; 'Unknown' = the provider shares little, so ask them. It is a tool, not legal advice.