The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Navigating Elder Care: Julio Gonzalez’s Innovative App Solution: Parensure

Episode Date: February 16, 2026

Navigating Elder Care: Julio Gonzalez’s Innovative App Solution: Parensure Parensure.com About the Guest(s): Julio Gonzalez is the founder and CEO of Parensure, an elder care innovation platform designed to help seniors age safely at home while keeping loved ones informed and reassured. With firsthand experience in navigating the challenges of supporting an aging parent, Julio has crafted a solution to bridge the emotional and logistical gaps families face when balancing care. Julio’s work is driven by a deep understanding of caregiver anxiety and strives to maintain senior autonomy through thoughtful design and simplicity. Episode Summary: Join Chris Voss in the latest episode of The Chris Voss Show as he delves into the innovative world of elder care with Julio Gonzalez, founder and CEO of Parensure. In this engaging discussion, Julio explores how technology can proactively assist caregivers in monitoring and supporting aging parents to safely remain in their homes. He speaks passionately about developing a platform that balances senior independence with reassuring insights for caregivers to optimize senior care. Throughout this insightful conversation, Chris and Julio discuss the “sandwich generation” and the “silver tsunami,” underlining the critical need for innovative solutions like Parensure. By utilizing modern technology like wearables and AI, the platform offers caregivers vital data on seniors’ well-being without being intrusive. They also talk about the challenges seniors face today with isolation and the burgeoning market for home modifications that accommodate aging loved ones. Julio envisions Parensure becoming a leading tool in supporting seniors and neurodiverse adults, ensuring happier and healthier lives. Key Takeaways: Julio Gonzalez introduced Parensure, an elder care platform aimed at reducing caregiver stress and enhancing senior independence. The “sandwich generation” and “silver tsunami” are key trends driving the need for better senior care innovations. Parensure utilizes technology like wearables and AI to provide caregivers with crucial data about seniors’ health and activity. A significant challenge is creating non-intrusive ways to monitor seniors’ activity, ensuring privacy and comfort. The app aims to extend its capabilities to support neurodiverse individuals, addressing a broad spectrum of care needs. Notable Quotes: “My mom’s 84 and lives alone in the house where I was born just 20 miles away from where I am today.” “You know, it takes a village, right? So I’m creating that village in an app.” “The loneliness epidemic, especially with seniors, is a thing.” “For 25,000 individuals turning 65 every single day, this is something that is going to continue to be a problem.” “90% of all seniors want to stay at home, and the best place for them to be is at home.”

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And we're going to get into it with him, find out how it works and what he's doing and how it can help other people, because that's what we do on this show. Julio Gonzalez joins us from a company called Parenthure. He is the founder and CEO. It's an elder care innovation platform. designed to help seniors safely age in place while keeping loved ones informed and reassured. Driven by first-hand experience navigating the challenge of supporting an aging parent, he realized that the emotional and logical gaps families face when balancing independence

with oversight. Parents sure combines simplicity, transparency, and thoughtful design to reduce caregiver anxiety without diminishing senior autonomy. Welcome the show. How are you, Julio? I am awesome and so very excited to be on your show, Chris. And we're excited to have you as well. Julio, give us here.com's website, social media, wherever you want people to find you on the interwebs. So as far as Parenthure is concerned, it is www.paren sure.com, P-A-R-E-N-S-U-R-E,

and pretty much Parenthure on all other social media. And I can be reached at Julio, J-U-L-I-O at Parenthure.com. So give us a 30,000 over you, what you do there. Sure. So my mom's 84 and she lives alone in the house where I was born just 20 miles away from where I am today. But she is alone. What is mom doing throughout the day? I call her once a day and check in on her.

And, you know, has she had breakfast? Does she take her medication? Is she active? You know, those are things that, you know, I don't see throughout the day. and when I talk to her, what I get is, I'm okay. You know, unless something is really wrong, mom doesn't say, I don't feel well today, right? And I'm one of, you know, about 60 million,

63 million individuals in the sandwich generation, you know, caring for kids and caring for parents. And it is extremely stressful. Yeah. So I decided to come up with a platform, an app, that helps with that care. improving communications by creating a care circle around that individual. So you can extend visibility to, you know, other siblings, in my case, my sister, friends, family, neighbors.

So everyone gets a different level of visibility to what's going on, but everyone can help take care of mom. You know, it takes a village, right? So I'm creating that village in and out. Oh, wow. And this app will be available on the iTunes store. the Google Play. It'll be available very soon. We are working to get final approval to get it out there. Yes. They have legal terms now that go miles long you have to get through. That's where we're stuck. We're updating the legal terms to make sure that everyone's happy. I remember the days when you could just, you could just make anything and put it on iTunes and they're like, oh, thank God you did something. Yeah, now some of the AI platforms allow you to get away with that. But you've got to,

go so far. That's probably maybe some of the filters that they're using. I know Amazon had to come down on books because there were so many AI fakeish sort of books being submitted. And I'm just like, God, if I do another book, I'm going to have to probably go through hell to get it approved and prove that it wasn't AI written and written by me, which is fine. I think they should prove, you have to prove, you have to disclose you out a ghostwriter too when you write books. Absolutely. Yeah. Anyway, so this, you, you know, You've introduced a new term. This is why I do the show.

I love to learn stuff and hear people's stories and I learn stuff every day. But the sandwich generation, I did not know that was a thing. That's the first time I've heard it and the definition that's wild. Yeah, so I'll give you another one, silver tsunami. Silver tsunami? We have entered the silver tsunami. So for the next something like eight or ten years, we have 25,000 individuals turning 65 every single day. Wow.

So this is something that is going to, you know, continue to be a problem, you know, and for those of us, again, in the sandwich generation caring for, you know, the generation above you and the generation behind you, it is significantly stressful. And the bulk of care falls on the women, you know, the female child. It's that nurturing. And not to say that, you know, us men can't do a good job of caring for our kids and parents. but, you know, statistically it falls on women to care for the family. And, you know, those individuals are, you know, have a day job.

They're taking kids to, you know, summer camp and all kinds of events. And in the meantime, it's, mom, how are you doing? Mom, how are you doing? Calling hourly to check in on the parents. And if I can streamline that, you know, a bit for them, you know, and improve that communication, that in and in of itself is a huge success. You know, my mom's pretty, she's 83 and she's doing really well with her age and taking care of herself. She does scramble around a lot and take care of my sister in a cure center who has MS and dementia, who's seven years younger than me.

We have that going on. So there's this kind of the sandwich. I don't know what you call that your siblings you're taking care of for dementia. And, you know, everyone's, you know, it seems to be getting dementia these days or Alzheimer's in old age. And it just kind of goes with the fact that we're living longer, I guess. Is that another factor in a lot of it? It is absolutely. And 90% of all seniors want to stay at home.

And when you talk to, you know, nurses and physicians, the best place for them to be is at home. It is. But again, you know, that creates a lot of stress. Because now, you know, the home needs to be, you know, adjusted for them. And there's an entire, you know, new market around home renovations for seniors. That in and of itself is a $5 billion market.

You know, putting in handles and showers and remodeling showers so that you have some of those walking tubs and, you know, expanding, you know, doorways for wheelchairs. You know, this entire, you know, what's now an industry around caring for our seniors is continuing to expand. And again, with that senior, with that silver tsunami, it's going to become that much bigger and more important. You know, so the strain on all aspects, you know, on the seniors because, you know, they fear falling, you know, on their, you know, children and their caregivers because, you know, they're having to pay attention to all different things. So that's what I'm trying to address through parent sure, you know. And with, you know, my mom's 84. I don't know if I mentioned that. You mentioned yours is 83.

Mime's not very tech savvy. So how do you, how do you care? for them in the most transparent way possible. The initial version of the app is going to be very tactile. You have to acknowledge a notification to take your medication and things like that. But what we've got coming really soon are things like wearables. If you've got an eyewatch, if you've got an Android watch, you know, you can track mobility, you can track location, and more importantly, you can detect falls.

You know, Falls are one of the biggest issues with seniors. My mom fell in the kitchen in the middle of the night about 18 months ago. And she sat there for half an hour, 45 minutes until she was able to collect herself. And then she didn't call me because it was 3 o'clock in the morning. So she waited till 6 and she calls me up all teary-eyed. I need you to come and take me to the doctor. And it's why didn't you call? You know, so with these sensors that we're going to build in and wearables and things like that, we'll have detection of falls.

We'll have, you know, mom's been, you know, in the bathroom for, you know, an extended period of time. Mom hasn't been very mobile today. So all of those things, you know, and now you bring AI in to provide some trending data. And now you have some really actionable data that you can use in the care of that senior. Because if mom on a daily basis is active, you know, 30% of the time, and today she's only 5% active, you know, send me an alert. You know, let me know, hey, mom, check in on mom. You know, she's not very mobile today. You know, because, again, I call my mom, oh, no, I'm fine.

You haven't been moving around today. You know, and I'm looking at, you know, exactly. You know, and I'm looking at, you know, even the possibility of building in, like, games, you know, to kind of not, because you have to be very careful. a platform like this that you don't get into a medical situation because then you have to go for FDA approval and you have to have the physicians involved. But if I can get subjective data, you know, similar to movement, you know, mom wins at Solitaire, you know, 60% of the time. And now, you know, she's only winning at 10% of the time. You know, is mom having, you know, is mom sad today? Is mom distracted? You know, what's going on with me? She's just not cheating like she usually does

With my mom, you never know. But yeah, you know, and AI can do a lot of that trending and analysis, you know, again, to paint that better picture around the senior. See, that's what I need. I need to find out my mom's cheating at gin rummy or whatever. I don't know. She plays some card game with her friend when they come over. Just don't get a rummy cube because that gets. Rummy cube.

Yeah, that gets addictive. You know, and a lot of, a lot of aging parents, They feel isolated. They feel alone. They don't have, you know, a lot of your, you lose a lot of your friends too at that age. Yes. You know, I'm, I'm in my 50s and I'm losing my friends. Guys just die. We just, we just start double-digit dying in our 50s. And then, and then it just kind of carries into our 60s and 70s. I mean, I'm just, it's just, it's kind of like a war zone for me where just every day I go on, you know, Facebook or something. and oh, Bob's gone. Shit, fuck.

Bob was kind of healthy. He's healthy than me. You know, I just saw some helping the phone today and, you know, some movie star guy who's really good looking and should be healthy because he's got great insurance probably and, you know, hopefully he eats, right? He looks like he eats, right? He just doesn't look like what I ate for 20 years. And, you know, he passed away at 48.

And I'm like, God, that's 10 years younger than me, man. So it's kind of like living, it's kind of like being. a soldier crossing the planes there and, you know, your friends keep getting taken out, but you've got to keep moving. Yeah, the loneliness epidemic is, is a thing, you know, and especially with seniors. So one of the things that I'm doing is I'm building in reminders, you know, and just check-ins, you know, how are you feeling today? And that's another area where we're looking at AI. There's a couple of companies out there working on AI friends, let's put it that way, for seniors that are specifically trained in dealing with seniors. So it's not just talking to your favorite, you know, LLM, ChantuPT or Gemini or whatever it is.

It is specific to seniors and they're trained so that if the conversation goes to a dark place, you know, something around depression, it's designed to really get. them, you know, out of that topic and encourage them to reach out to a family member or a friend. So the ability to integrate with tools like that is something that is absolutely on the roadmap. But then the flip side of that is to the caregiver, right? Because again, you know, the caregiver is caring for mom and dad and working and kids. So I'm building in prompts, you know, have you taken, you know, 15 minutes for yourself today? Have you had water today? you know, a self-care reminder for the caregiver because they need as much, you know,

in their direction as the senior does, you know, for their care. Yeah. I mean, you know, it's, when people come older, you lose your friends. And that's what my mom is, you know, she's either lost her friends or she's gotten sick of them, you know, she's kind of reached that point where all women are not on my side. And, you know, she likes, doesn't like the drama, I guess. but, you know, it's easy to isolate, especially to get older because you get in your own head. You have enough of your own stuff you're doing and focusing on.

Yeah, someone needs to check on you. I mean, someone needs to check on me right now and then be like, hey, are you okay, man, what's going on? You know, because I have a really bad ADHD, so I'm like, squirrel all the time, pretty much. You know, all those people that I, I think there was a, there was a show with that, the family show with that guy from Breaking Bad, forget his name. and he did an ADHD thing where he went to, I don't know, he went looking for a tool to fix something in the house and then 10 steps later, 10 activities later,

he's fixing the car. He's like, what started this whole road? That's me. But a lot of times too, families have parents moving in with them and they're having to make room in the house for them and then I'm sure when they're at work, they're having to check in and see how mom's doing. You know, this dementia thing is really bad.

Alzheimer's, dementia. it almost seems almost it feels like it's inevitable I don't know the date on it but it just there's so many chemicals in the food and and you know environmentally that it is it is affecting us and and there's a lot of early onset dementia yeah I've seen you know just in the people around me which which is a challenge yeah I've been on Twitter that whole place is demented anyway that's what I call about the the yeah in and And I mean, you start losing an edge. I think I've lost an edge off of my brain a little bit.

Yeah. I don't quite seem as sharp or sometimes things don't come to me quite as quick anymore. And, you know, I'm always trying to focus that and do stuff. But, you know, we've never lived this long. A hundred years ago, I think most people don't last, what, 50 or 40? Yeah. When they made, when they invented Social Security, like I think only 6% or 10 people, 10% or something, you have to go look at up, folks, don't quote me.

But only, you know, a small portion of the population lived to 65, let alone beyond. And so the government was like, this is like a great deal for us. This is the greatest death tax ever. But now it's flipped. And so it'll kind of do some monitoring. You may have some, what are those things called wearables that you can use? Like watches and stuff to check pulses and things. Yeah.

So it's the current version's got reminders, medications, appointments. And so you get notifications for all of those. You know, the first one is rise and shine, right? So I want to know that mom got up and, you know, she's already mobile. So that's going to be the first notification. Then after that, you know, it's your medications, exercise, lunch, you know, all of those types of activities. But the wearables are really the big news in this because the wearables can provide so much data.

And there's a lot of technology out there, you know, not just. things like the iwatch and the android, but there are wearable rings. There's the Fitbit type of devices, and there's new ones coming out every day. So being able to get all of that environmental data in is absolutely critical. I'm working with a vendor that has sensors that you put around the house. So if mom's not going to use a wearable, it doesn't have an iPhone, you know, you can put wearables around the house and still get sensory information. Again, trying to make it as transparent as possible because the seniors don't want to be watched and don't necessarily want to be clicking things, you know, on a device. So having that, those environmental things just,

you know, passively, you know, watching what's going on is something that, you know, a lot of seniors will agree to over having a camera on them. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, I'm, I tell my mom, keep your phone on you at all times in case you fall. I do. I'm 58. In case I fall, I get stuck somewhere. You know, something happens. You never know.

You know, break a leg, twist an ankle. I have a heart attack, you know. Like I said, I'm starting to see a lot of, you know, Bob killed over from a heart attack. And you're just like, oh, wow. I met that. Yeah. Yeah. I get up in the middle of the night and I grab my phone because it has a flashlight.

Ah. So if I need something, you know, there I am. Even, even, you know, in the middle of the night, my phone is always with me. And that's something I think very generational, you know, where, because I'm your same age. I'm 58. You know, our generation is much more, you know, on a smartphone, smart device, and absolutely the younger kids. As we age, you know, I think that as seniors will be in a much better place than folks like our moms who don't want to carry something with them, don't want to have a pendant, don't want to have a pendant, don't want to have stuff around them.

Yeah. Do people not like that? What was that thing they used to have back in the day? I don't know if it's so popular. Life Alert. Can't get up. Yeah. Life Alert still has a huge, huge market.

And they are developing a lot of new technologies to expand on just having the pendant on you. You know, one of the things, I was at a conference recently. One of the things that they had was a cane, basically with a cell phone built Oh, really? So you could call for help through the cane. So besides the pendant and things like that, the challenge that, the next big challenge that we're going to have is recharging because everything needs to be charged.

Yeah. You know, we either need some really long lifespan batteries or, you know, it's something easier for the seniors to be able to drop in and recharge. And that's one of the things I saw at the same concept. conference, it was another ring, you know, that gets all your health information with a mini built-in solar panel. So the charge lasts for a month. So you only have to remember to recharge once a month. And, you know, it's not a significant charge, but the little solar panel is sufficient to keep it going for the month. So we're going to start seeing a lot of, you know,

new technologies like that that are going to make it that much easier for the senior to not have to remember to charge and pick up and things like that. Even with your app, I mean, my mom knows one thing that she does every day. She charges that phone at night. Yeah. And, you know, everyone kind of learned that with these phones and stuff. But yeah, anything else, you know, I don't think, I don't think if I wanted to put cameras in my mom's home that she would be, you know. They want their privacy.

Yeah, no one wants to say, you. Every now and then you've got to walk around your house naked, I do, or in your underwear. And no one wants to see mom doing that. Your own mom. There are sites for the other stuff. And I think where a lot of, you know, other, you know, of these types of platforms fail is in process, right? I'm an operations guy, you know, my background's technology. My day job is helping, you know, businesses address their operations.

So why wouldn't you build in, you know, if you take off your wearable, a reminder for two hours from now to put it back on? Yeah. So I'm building all of those workflows in to make it as easy as possible and as transparent as possible for that senior. And again, to keep their loved ones informed. And, you know, I suppose if you see mom's steps, you can see your heartbeat or some of the day off of my watch. Yeah. The my wearable. You know, you're like, okay, he's moving around the house.

I can see steps and heartbeats. And so he didn't pass in his sleep tonight. And, you know, that happened to my uncle. passing asleep. He actually was feeling kind of, I don't know, tired and he went laid down for a nap and never woke up. And, you know, maybe that's the best way to go. I don't know. Some people, the jury's still out. I guess, I don't know when we're going to find out. Was that painless as we think it is? I don't know. Maybe you have a whole dream that you're having a heart attack and it's just sheer terror. I don't know. I've just given people a whole new horror thing. Good job, Chris. Way to

go. It's supposed to be a show that makes people's lives better. You're just giving them a nightmare. So quick and painless. We'll stick to quick and painless. How long have you been working on this project? Was your mom been the impetus for you going, hey, I need to do something about this? Yeah. You know, I've been, you know, pondering for quite some time, you know, what to do about mom. Because mom refuses to move in with anyone. She likes her independent.

She wants to, you know, she doesn't want to go to a nursing home. And, you know, mom's still good. She drives and she's very. and stuff. So she's not ready to go anywhere. But, you know, sometimes, you know, it'd be a lot easier to, to have her, you know, in my home, for instance, and go back to that multi-generational home. So it's, what are we going to do about mom? How are we going to handle this? And, you know, it's something that I have been, you know, tossing around for quite a while. And I met some, you know, creative individuals over the past 24 months. And it just,

woke up the creativity and say, you know, this is something that that could actually, you know, be done and started working on that. Development's going on for about six months now. You know, I was able to turn it around pretty quickly. I got into an app accelerator program that helped me do all the ideation and, you know, help me go through all of the prototyping and testing to get this out as quickly as possible. And now with AI, you know, that time frame has gotten that much shorter. So I'm talking to friends who are now building their own platforms. They're talking, you know, six weeks to get from, you know, initial development to

a basic product. So, yeah, mom was definitely the driver and helping, you know, other individuals such as myself. And the more I talk to people, you know, the more suggestions and recommendations I get, I had a dinner event several months ago with a number of home health care agencies. And a lady came in from a local neurodiversity chamber of commerce. Oh, really? And, you know, now that it's opened up the possibility of expanding the use of the app to adult autistic children, or they're adults, but, you know, children of the sandwich generation.

You know, so these are individuals that may need a little bit. bit more, you know, care and, you know, reminders and so forth. So it's opened up, you know, potentially the entire adult neurodiverse community. Oh, what? And that came from, you know, an accidental, you know, this lady stopping in at my dinner event. Oh, wow. Yeah, neurodiverse people, people on the spectrum, um, et cetera, et cetera, they can also, you know, be like me sometimes where they get caught, they just caught up in their own stuff and they're just living in their own head. and you kind of start ignoring maybe your health or maybe yourself or the world around you. I know some friends that have autistic children where, you know, they kind of self-isolate themselves

kind of for stimuli protection. Yeah. Because they'll, you know, if they go into large crowds or anything, they get overwhelmed and they just, they don't respond well to large crowds, you know. Kind of like how I do just about people in general. Hey, hey. Oh, God, it's another human. Anyway, so, yeah, I think it's great.

You know, this is becoming a big and bigger issue. We've had more and more people on the show trying to come up with ways to deal with this and books on how to be caregivers to your mom and dad. Yeah, it's just, it's kind of scary some of the things you do. And I talk to my mom a lot about, you know, hey, you should avoid this for Alzheimer's, make sure you don't get it and, you know, get your sleep on time. That's probably maybe a component we should talk about measuring sleep. Because to my understanding, from everything I've read and seen so far,

sleep is really important for healing the brain, re-saying the brain, and fighting off Alzheimer's and dementia. Because if you're, you know, I'm 58, man. If I sleep six hours, I've got to have a nap. And if I do that twice in a row, if I sleep four hours in a row at a time, people get murdered. I mean, there's some murder that will take place. The judge says I can't do that anymore.

I get one of my six ankle bracelets off next week. I just have a whole, got a whole chain there going on. But they charge each other, so it's nice. So no more murdering, the judge says. No more murdering. You got to have that sleep. And, you know, this way you can monitor, okay, mom slept for eight hours. It's usually a discussion.

You sleep and me and my mom have it. How many hours do you sleep? How many hours do you sleep? And, you know, we're both in our old age. It seems to get harder to sleep when you get older. I don't know why. Yeah. No, I'm with you.

I'm a terrible sleeper. You know, I'll sleep for, you know, know, a lot of medications and doctors will talk to you about falling asleep. You know, I'll fall asleep in a heartbeat. I don't have a problem falling asleep. I have a problem staying asleep. You know, so I'll be up, you know, in an hour and a half, two hours, and then I'm up, you know, for three, you know, because who can sleep in the middle of the night after a two hour nap?

But there have been some studies that, you know, sleep does contribute to dementia and Alzheimer's. You know, those things are all, you know, under, you know, test. conditions and stuff and we'll eventually find out hopefully some medications to address those things. But yes, absolutely, you know, it's important to have, again, that complete picture around the senior because now you can start seeing trends and have a better conversation with a physician. And now that I'm bringing up the physician, one of the things that we're also looking at is a not taker of sorts so that the senior can take that to their doctor's visits and not have it, you know, listen in, but, you know, transcribe and process some of that conversation.

Because again, I asked mom, what did the doctor say? Doctor said everything's fine. Okay. Yeah. What else did the doctor say? You know, so having some assistance there, you know, a reminder to, you know, remember to talk to the doctor about whatever. and having that synthesizing of the conversation so that I get, you know, a real summary and not everything is okay is of tremendous value to caregivers.

You know, in my case, my mom, like I said, is 20 miles away. But I know a ton of people whose parents are across state lines, across, you know, time zones, across the ocean, you know, and anything that can be done to improve that communication and data flow is really critical for both parties. Yeah. I mean, sometimes you live in other states. You can't check on mom. And even if you call her, you know, sometimes she has an answer and you're like, hmm, to you an answer. And you're just kind of flying blind until she calls her back. And sometimes she gets busy with her things. And sometimes she's getting naps and she's tired. And, you know, my mom goes out and takes care of my sister and does stuff. And she tends to wear down and get tired. And

then she's got to just, you know, refill the bucket and relax. And she wants her phones. Part of it is my sister calls a lot from the care center. And so there's a certain point where she's, you know, after age, she's got to sleep. And, you know, this is important. But I love the idea of being able to monitor. Is she okay or dad's okay? You know, his dad moving around.

You know, my one of my friends, you know, his dad had really bad diabetes and dementia, I think from probably the diabetes. A lot of these diseases tend to cause the brain to go. You know, it seems like MS and maybe diabetes and other things. That seems to escalate or accelerate. I don't know. That's true, folks. I'm just, I'm not a doctor, clearly.

But it seems to be escalating and carrying on to other things. Like it cascades at Figuillis, that's what I'm trying to say. You know, it's, and his dad was just sitting in his lazy boy, sleeping in his lazy boy. He was basically living in his lazy boy. boy recliner. Good for him. It sounds like a great way to go. But he, you know, his dad wasn't moving around. And his dad was putting on this weight, making his diabetes worse. He was eating, you know, whatever crap he was eating that was making diabetes worse. And so he was just, he would literally just sit and watch TV all day in his big, lazy boy recliner, you know, and then he,

then he's sleeping it. Yeah, you definitely be like, is he moving around? Is this heartbeat? What's going on there? And it becomes almost a self-fulfilling prophecy, right? Especially with diabetes and that's a whole other epidemic, you know, lack of mobility creates, you know, added weight. The added weight, you know, is exacerbated by the diabetes. And it becomes this just, you know, vicious cycle. And there's almost no getting out of it. Yeah, yeah.

So as we go out, give people a pitch out on how to get involved with what you're doing there, how to find out more. I don't know if you've got subscriptions at your website where you send out newsletters and things like that, etc. Yep, that's exactly where I'm going to send them. If you go to www.parenshaw.com, I've got a form at the bottom of the website.

You can fill out, and you will get all the information on Parenthure as it becomes available. As I mentioned earlier, we are imminently going to be available on the app store, both Apple and Android or Chrome. Right now, the app,

is going to be free. We need to get as many testers as possible. So anybody that gets in early will basically have lifetime free access. Oh, wow. And when we turn on the subscription, then, you know, anybody new will have to subscribe. But all early subscribers will remain free. And that is for the assistance in testing. Now, so there's going to be a lot of, a lot of great capabilities coming out very quickly. You know, so early subscribers, you know, science. go ahead and sign up. We'll get you the information. And again, as soon as any new news is out, we'll send it out to everybody to do updates. Thank you very much for coming to the show, Julio, and thanks for working on this issue. You know, we need to, we want our parents to stay

around for a long time. I want my mom to look to 100. She hates it when I say that. But it's true. I mean, I'd rather ever hear than not. And yeah, and you want them to enjoy their health. You know, my mom's got some sort of insurance that is supposed to provide. nurses. She wants to be in her home when she gets older. And she sees the horror show that these care centers are in like my sister. I mean, it's just, they've all been bought out by big corporations. And it's, it's a real freaking nightmare. They've leaned out the staff. They leaned out the services. They, you know, stack people in rooms like, like military dormitories. It's just crazy. And, you know, these people lived a great life. They did great things with their lives

and to kind of put them in this kind of throwaway bin situation. It's just, it's so hard. And the cost kills any legacy that they may want to leave to their family members. I mean, assisted living is expensive. So whatever we can do to help keep our parents healthy at home, you know, it is in everyone's, to everyone's benefit. I think that's why a lot of people have their parents move in with them so they can care for them, Because, I mean, the rooms are $5,000 to $6,000 a pop. And sometimes you're sharing that room.

My sister's been in care centers for 10, 15 years, maybe longer. And a lot of times she shared a room with someone else. And I'm just like, we're paying $5,000 for a room that is being shared with someone else. I mean, this could buy a mansion in real life. My sister could be living in a, I don't know, a million-dollar home for the two types of whatever. here, I don't know. But yeah, it's crazy the costs of taking care. And yeah, so being able to, you know, give mom or dad their freedom as long as they can to where they can be in their home or they're comfortable or where they feel safe. Absolutely. You know, no, no wants to die in a hospital, I don't think. Is there anybody that sits around is like, I'm just looking so forward to dying in a hospital, fill with everything and it's freezing cold and the food of shit. And I don't know any of these people. And all the stuff you can pick up in a hospital too, right?

Oh, yeah. That's part of keeping it cold, you know, minimizing any kind of disease spread. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's the big thing. They always give me those aprons to wear whenever I go in the hospital. And, like, paper thin, it's like wearing just paper. Did you guys just take a bunch of eight by 15 paper and tape it again and put on me? And it has no warming ability whatsoever.

It's not made for warm. And it's just got a big, you know, big hole for the bottom half of your body below it. And, you know, so there's no, it's not designed for, you know, you don't wear this to Everest, folks. Let's put that way. Maybe someone should try that try setting a record of wearing a medical gown to top of Everest. That'd be a thing. I get your free beers for life. Got up naked and afraid, a hospital apron.

Afraid. Yeah, because that frostbite is going to get nippy there, boys. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, there you go. So thank you very much, Julio, for coming on. We really appreciate it. No, thank Chris for having me on the show.

And sign up, folks, right away so you can get in on that testing phase and help them do the test thing. I know iPhone has that. What's that service that you can sign up with? Test flight. Yeah. Test flight, yeah. Thanks for tuning in. Be good to each other.

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