Death, Sex & Money | Money on the Mind: How to Budget for Aging Parents…and Yourself

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🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In a new, very special Death, Sex & Money and Slate Money crossover, Felix Salmon and Anna Sale are once again joined by Felix’s financial advisor Adrianna Adams from Domain Money to talk about…parents. They dig into the emotions of trying to take care of your aging parents while also growing your own wealth, the importance of setting goals, and how to deal with aging children AND aging parents at the same time. For a visual experience, you can watch this episode on YouTube. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Video production by Micah Phillips. Get more Death, Sex & Money with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of DSM and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the Death, Sex & Money show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/dsmplus to get access wherever you listen. If you’re new to the show, welcome. We’re so glad you’re here. Find us and follow us on Instagram and you can find Anna’s newsletter at annasale.substack.com. Our email address, where you can reach us with voice memos, pep talks, questions, critiques, is [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Anna, with our third and final chat about money and planning and managing all the emotions that come with that.
0:09.1	We've been doing this series called Money on the Mind.
0:12.2	I've been talking to my colleague Felix Salmon, who hosts the Slate Money podcast and covers business in the economy for Bloomberg.
0:19.5	And we've been having video chats where we've talked about money and compared our vantage points on big topics.
0:27.0	Our first drop was about money and deciding whether to become a parent.
0:31.3	Last week, we talked about saving for old age and retirement.
0:35.2	And this week we look at another important and potentially quite
0:38.6	expensive part of life, taking care of our elders, our parents and others we love as they age.
0:45.8	For this conversation, Felix and I were joined again by Felix's actual real life financial
0:51.0	advisor. I hope you enjoy our conversation. You can also watch it on YouTube.
0:55.5	Just go over to YouTube.com slash slate. And if you haven't listened to our new death,
1:01.6	sex and money episode from earlier this week about the late musician Luke Bell and my beautiful
1:07.6	conversation with his mother, Carol, don't miss it. It was a very special episode to get to make.
1:13.8	But for now, I hope you get something useful out of this money chat with Felix of Me.
1:24.7	Hello and welcome to death, sex, and money. I'm Felix Salmon of Bloomberg.
1:31.2	Welcome to Slate Money. I'm Anna Sale. We are, we have crossed over. We have changed our jobs.
1:37.8	And for those of you who were here last time with Adriana Adams of Domain Money, I can tell you your infratreat
1:45.5	because this time we have Adriana Adams of Domain Money.
1:49.3	Welcome back.
1:50.7	Thank you guys.
1:51.8	I'm so happy to be here again.
1:53.8	Because we love you so much.
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