Swedish Welfare-Tech & Assistive AI
Intelligent Assistive Companions Built for Dignified, Independent Living
Eldera Labs combines natural conversational AI, proactive daily routines and privacy-preserving local edge intelligence to support ageing adults, their families and care providers – without cameras watching around the clock and without health data leaving the EU.
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Edge & Sovereign Inference
- Designed for Living Labs
Mode:Medication check-in
- Good morning, Anna. It's Tuesday. Have you had your morning tablet yet?
- Not yet, I was just about to.
- Lovely. I'll wait here – tell me when it's done, and then we can plan the day.
Guardrail
Confirm dose → log → notify only if missed
The challenge
A demographic shift that care systems cannot staff their way out of
Populations are ageing faster than care workforces can grow. Technology can help, but only if it respects the people it is meant to serve.
Strain on professional caregivers
A rapidly ageing population is putting escalating pressure on home-care and residential staff, who spend scarce hours on routine check-ins instead of the human care only they can give.
Loneliness and lost engagement
Many older adults spend long stretches alone. Without daily conversation and mental stimulation, isolation grows and cognitive engagement fades.
A gap between two poor options
Today's choices are intrusive surveillance hardware on one side and passive emergency buttons on the other. Neither is dignified, and neither is genuinely responsive.
The missing middle
Intrusive monitoring
Always-on cameras and sensors that trade privacy and dignity for oversight.
Eldera Companion
A responsive, conversational presence that keeps data local and humans in the loop.
Passive alarm buttons
Silent until someone presses them, which is exactly when many cannot.
The Eldera Companion Platform
A companion that listens, remembers the day and knows when to call a human
Four capabilities work together as one calm, voice-first presence in the home.
Natural voice-first interface
Fluid, stress-free spoken conversation designed for seniors who cannot or will not navigate smartphone touchscreens. No apps, no menus, no passwords – just talk.
“Could you remind me what my daughter said yesterday?”
Context-aware daily routines
Proactive, gentle check-ins, medication schedules, hydration reminders and time orientation that adapt to the rhythm of the person's day.
“It's two o'clock – a glass of water, and then your walk?”
Cognitive & social engagement
Adaptive memory exercises, storytelling, trivia and intellectually stimulating conversation that meets the person where they are, on good days and harder ones.
“Tell me about the summers at your grandmother's house.”
Caregiver & family bridge
Peace-of-mind status updates and structured escalation, without invasive, around-the-clock camera monitoring. Families and carers are told what they need to know, when they need to know it.
“Morning routine completed. No action needed.”
Technology & privacy architecture
Engineered so that safety does not depend on a language model behaving well
Flexible dialogue is the easy part. Eldera Labs separates what the model may improvise from what must be deterministic, and keeps personal data on hardware you can point to.
How a single interaction flows
Inside the home or the EU sovereign boundary
- 1
Listen
Speech is transcribed locally. Raw audio never leaves the node.
- 2
Converse
A lightweight open-source language model handles natural dialogue.
- 3
Guard
A finite-state engine owns every critical wellness and medication step.
- 4
Respond
Only a verified reply is spoken. Safety events can interrupt it at once.
↑ Outbound: anonymised queries only
Tool gateway
Real-time lookups
Sanitised, text-only requests leave the boundary. User state never does.
- Weather
- News
- Calendar
Hybrid local / sovereign inference
Lightweight open-source language models run directly on local hardware or in European sovereign cloud environments, so health and conversational data stays within the EU. Designed for GDPR compliance from the first line of architecture.
- Edge-first, with no raw audio or video leaving the device
- EU-only fallback for heavier workloads
- Open-source models, auditable and replaceable
Deterministic state-machine guardrails
Flexible LLM dialogue is combined with finite-state logic, so critical wellness and medication workflows follow fixed, testable paths. The model can phrase things kindly; it cannot invent a dose.
- No free-form model output in critical wellness flows
- Every transition is explicit, logged and reviewable
- Safety events pre-empt conversation immediately
Real-time tool execution
Safe API integration for external weather, news and calendar lookups. Requests are reduced to PII-free text before they leave the home, so the outside world is informed without learning anything about the user.
- Allow-listed tools with a narrow, typed interface
- No user identity or state in outbound requests
- Encrypted payloads for caregiver alerts
Roadmap & Living Lab pilots
From validated prototype to municipal-scale welfare technology
We are in the pilot-validation phase and actively seeking Living Lab, municipal and research partners for the next step.
Phase 1
Completed
Foundations
- Voice interface prototyping
- Finite-state safety engines
- Local workstation inference benchmarking
Phase 2
Current focus
Pilot validation
- Closed pilot validation
- User feedback with Swedish care environments
- Multi-modal sensory experiments
Phase 3
Next steps
Scale with municipalities
- Hardware-agnostic platform integrations
- Municipal welfare-tech pilots (äldreomsorg)
- Scalable multi-tenant deployments
About Eldera Labs
Technology that doesn't just assist – it cares
A Swedish innovation company working where advanced AI meets modern elder care.
Eldera Labs AB, based in Stockholm, builds voice-first assistive companions that connect older people with their families and care staff. We combine deep technical expertise in large language models with an empathetic understanding of human needs.
We do not set out to replace human warmth. We set out to free up the time for it, and to make sure that no older person has to feel forgotten.
- Legal entity
- Eldera Labs AB
- Company reg. no.
- 559606-4088
- Company
- Stockholm, Sweden
Dignity first
Voice, not screens. Presence, not surveillance. Older adults stay in charge of their own home.
Privacy by design
Raw camera and microphone data stays on local hardware, and personal data stays in the EU.
Humans in the loop
We support caregivers and families. We escalate to people; we never substitute for them.
Partner with us
Let's shape the future of elder care together
We are opening conversations with municipalities, care providers, research institutions and funders. Tell us about your environment and we will reply personally.
- Municipalities & care providers
- Research & Living Labs
- Funders & innovation partners