Introducing So Your Parents Are Old
So Your Parents Are Old
Vanessa Grigoriadis
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever filled several dumpsters with your dead mom’s junk? Found yourself googling how irrevocable trusts work? Or... had to reconstruct your mafioso dad’s identity after he went on the lam - just to get him on Medicaid? Well, So Your Parents Are Old - and this is the show for you. Hosted by longtime journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis, who’s in the thick of it herself, the show dives into everything from estate drama to emotional whiplash, offering real talk and practical advice on dealing with aging parents.
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| 0:00.0 | So your parents are old and you're looking for some help dealing with that. |
| 0:10.0 | Well, I'm Vanessa Grigoriades and I am here to talk. |
| 0:15.0 | I've been going through it for a while now. |
| 0:18.0 | My mom, who has dementia, has become the center of my life. Even as I go about my |
| 0:24.3 | career, raise my kids, pay my mortgage, and buy my daughter a bunch of shockingly expensive |
| 0:30.7 | costume jewelry. Like, it's made out of yarn and then has some beads on it that spell out |
| 0:36.6 | sleigh. Why is it $7? So, yes, in the |
| 0:41.2 | middle of all of these just humdrum annoyances of life, there are then a million fires that are |
| 0:47.7 | burning. Because of my mom. I do love her, of course. But sometimes it feels like my life is burning to the ground. |
| 0:56.0 | No one wants to talk about this. |
| 0:58.0 | Are you freaked out that I'm even talking about this? |
| 1:01.0 | Don't go! |
| 1:02.0 | I feel a hell of a lot more sane when I talk to other people |
| 1:07.0 | who are going through this profound parent-child reversal, like who is who now? |
| 1:14.3 | And that's what this podcast is all about. |
| 1:18.4 | Each week, I'm going to talk to somebody who has gone through it. |
| 1:22.8 | Celebrities, comedians, journalists, just great people with life experience. |
| 1:28.8 | We'll swap stories. |
| 1:30.4 | We'll commiserate. |
| 1:31.6 | It just really messed me up in the head. |
| 1:34.4 | All of it just really was a lot. |
| 1:36.6 | We'll conquer the mountains of paperwork. |
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