Uber Engineer Devises Caregiving Program Based On His Family’s Needs - Retirement Daily on TheStreet: Finance and Retirement Advice, Analysis, and More

The Uber Caregiver service began as an idea driven by Uber Health lead engineer Jeremy Hintz, who watched his grandparents’ quality of life diminish due to multiple roadblocks of aging. Hintz’s own experiences with his family, developed with the assistance of his engineering team, morphed into a solution that will help families across the country. Hintz’s grandparents, who were used to living on their own, went through some medical events that impaired their ability to complete daily tasks by themselves. “My mom had to step in to care for the two of them, and the thing that she quickly realized was a lot of what she was doing was getting them places and getting stuff for them,” Hintz said. “So the idea was basically ‘What about people like my mom, what product could we offer them that looks and feels like the magic of Uber that we’re so used to, but specifically designed around caregiving?”’ Uber is set to launch the new Caregiver service this summer designed to make the lives of older

The Uber Caregiver service began as an idea driven by Uber Health lead engineer Jeremy Hintz, who watched his grandparents’ quality of life diminish due to multiple roadblocks of aging. Hintz’s own experiences with his family, developed with the assistance of his engineering team, morphed into a solution that will help families across the country. Hintz’s grandparents, who were used to living on their own, went through some medical events that impaired their ability to complete daily tasks by themselves. “My mom had to step in to care for the two of them, and the thing that she quickly realize