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Audrey windfall isn't able to get around by herself anymore especially for her dialysis treatments you felt more comfortable now yeah so the math professor and former engineer decided to test out a new online service and app called honor which matches seniors in the San Francisco Bay Area with professional caregivers she receives help five days a week not only do they provide regular caregiving cleaning activities but wash clothes and they cook and I must say they all can cook everybody can cook grits let me tell you using computers tablets and smartphones seniors and their families can request a caregiver through honor for twenty-five dollars an hour the senior gets a notification of who's coming while caregivers use the app to get background information and keep track of tasks family gets an app on their phone that shows them who's going to be going to their parents house what they're going to do and then after they visit what they did while they were there honor is one of several matching services including home hero and care links that have already received tens of millions of dollars from Silicon Valley investors America will be a nation of many more senior citizens and entrepreneurs know that the number of people who are 65 and over in America is doubling 272 million people between 2000 and 2030 the Obama administration is also exploring ways tech can help seniors technology companies such as uber and Airbnb participated in the White House Conference on Aging we have to work to do more to ensure that every older American has the resources and the support that they need to thrive owner announced it is donating 1 million dollars in free care that will evenly be split between the Bay Area and nine other unspecified regions in San Francisco Lexus avedis cnet.com for CBS News you