This is a research and demonstration project. It is not a medical device, and it must not be used to make care decisions.
Please read this before running the project, showing it to anyone, or reusing any part of it.
This software has not been evaluated, cleared, or approved by the FDA, the EMA, the MHRA, or any other regulatory body. It is not certified under any medical-device framework. It was built as a hackathon prototype to explore whether computer vision and language models could be combined into a memory-support interface — nothing more.
No part of this system has been tested in a clinical setting, reviewed by clinicians, or measured against any standard of care. The prompts, the retrieval logic, and the behavioral categories were written by developers, not by medical professionals.
In particular, the POST /api/caregiver/analyze endpoint returns a field named
clinical_rationale. That name describes the shape of the data, not its authority. It is
language-model output. It is not a clinical assessment, and no clinician reviewed it.
The assistant is built on a large language model. Like all such models, it can:
- state things that are confidently wrong,
- invent details that were never in the patient profile,
- misread a scene, or misidentify a person or object,
- produce guidance that is inappropriate for a specific person's condition.
Face recognition additionally produces false matches and false rejections. A card naming the wrong person is an expected failure mode of this system, not an edge case.
- Diagnosis, screening, triage, or staging of dementia or any other condition.
- Treatment, medication, or dosage decisions of any kind.
- Unsupervised care, monitoring, or companionship for a person with dementia.
- Any situation where a wrong or missing answer could affect someone's safety.
- Storing or processing real patient records, protected health information (PHI), or any data subject to HIPAA, GDPR, or comparable regimes.
Nothing this software outputs is a substitute for a qualified healthcare professional. If you are caring for someone with dementia, decisions about their care belong with their doctor and care team.
In an emergency, contact your local emergency services. Do not consult this software.
patient_profile.json describes a fictional patient ("Arthur") invented for demonstration. It is
not a real person's record, and the repository contains no real patient data.
This project is provided under the MIT License, which includes no warranty of any kind. See LICENSE. The authors accept no liability for any use of this software.
See also PRIVACY.md for how the system handles biometric data.