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So Your Parents Are Old

You Deserve More with Ai-Jen Poo

So Your Parents Are Old

Vanessa Grigoriadis

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa talks with labor leader and care advocate Ai-jen Poo about the panini generation, and what happens when government fails to invest in care infrastructure.


To see what you can do to help, check out Ai-jen’s organization, Caring Across Generations.


To connect with the team, find us on ⁠Instagram⁠ and ⁠Youtube⁠, or shoot us an email at soyourparentsareold@gmail.com. We want to hear from you! 


Our production team is Shoshi Shmuluvitz, managing producer and editor; Lily Houston Smith, senior producer; Ashley Warren, production manager; Yi-Wen Lai-Tremewan, studio recordist; and music by Mark McAdam and Amber Devereux.

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0:28.7

The Fall Line True Crime is a deep-dive podcast focused on cold cases that could be resolved if the public knew about them.

0:38.3

You'll hear about missing people whose families have been searching for decades.

0:42.5

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0:47.5

and unsolved homicides that never made the national news.

0:52.4

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0:57.7

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1:03.6

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1:06.1

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1:17.6

Thank you. online wherever you get your podcasts. You might think it's depressing to think about these things, but I would want to flip it.

1:22.8

I would say like, it is so empowering.

1:26.8

How do you want to care for others and how do you want to be cared for?

1:37.0

Welcome back to So Your Parents Are Old. I'm Vanessa Grigoriades and thank you all for being here

1:43.8

again this week. So if your old parents

1:47.8

need help, you might be doing what I'm doing. You take time out of your workday to go to

1:53.4

doctor's appointments. You may even recruit other family members, some willing, some unwilling,

2:00.3

to help here and there. But at the same time,

2:03.4

professional caregivers, some of whom are working with Medicaid, some of whom are working with private

2:10.4

pay, also have a hard time getting their own protections and making a good wage.

2:19.5

Ijimpu is a labor leader, an organizer, and an author.

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