Hosted by Vanessa Grigoriadis · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 30 episodes
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Journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis talks to friends, experts, and celebrities about the chaos of dealing with aging parents. From Medicaid nightmares to emotional meltdowns in storage units, it’s a brutally honest, often hilarious look at one of life’s most disorienting stages. Come for the catharsis, stay for the gallows humor and unfiltered conversations. If you’re currently the parent to your parents, this is your group chat in podcast form.
Vanessa Grigoriadis hosts So Your Parents Are Old, a society show with 30 episodes published.
Cybersecurity expert and author of The Dark Side of the Boom Patrick Coughlin joins Vanessa to talk about the scams coming for our parents and their bank accounts. They get into AI voice cloning, spoofed numbers, why sen
What can you actually do to keep your brain healthy — and what is just wellness noise? Vanessa talks with Dr. Silky Pahlajani of Weill Cornell Medicine about Alzheimer’s, women’s brain health, menopause, sleep, stress, d
Senior care advisor Neil Nagraj and podcaster Laura House join Vanessa to talk about the impossible math of senior housing: when aging in place stops working, what assisted living actually is, and why so many families wa
This is an episode where we get mad! Comedian Lewis Black cared for his late elderly parents, who lived to 101 and 104. He talks about something nobody wants to even think about: what he'll do when he's too old to care
Joan Lunden joins Vanessa to talk about her new memoir, JOAN: Life Beyond the Script , and the moments that forced her off-script: bringing her baby to work at Good Morning America , living through divorce in public, sur
This week, we’re sharing an episode from The Gratitudeology Podcast with Jamie Hess , featuring Jessie Buttafuoco. Jessie opens up about the shocking event that changed her family forever, the media storm that followed,
When Jonathan Penner’s wife Stacy Title was diagnosed with ALS, their life changed with shocking speed. He joins Vanessa to talk about caregiving, survival, and the hard-won wisdom of staying present even when everything
How do you choose a hospital or senior living community when everything feels impossibly high-stakes? Vanessa talks with two U.S. News & World Report journalists — Ben Harder, managing editor and chief of health analysis
When a loved one is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, the grieving starts years before the end. In The End Is the Beginning , Jill Bialosky tells her mother’s story in reverse. Jill and Vanessa talk about what it means to “eul
Elder care and childcare costs are rising fast, while wages and support for caregivers lag behind. Longtime care policy advocate Julie Kashen breaks down how we got here, what it would look like if we treated care as rea
Kim Elliott’s caregiving story includes a leukemia diagnosis, a stem cell transplant, and some truly deranged insurance battles. She talks with Vanessa about surviving all of it — and building Gray Monster so other careg
Michelle Boyaner reflects on lives and relationships while sharing insights from her acclaimed film It’s Not a Burden: The Humor and Heartache of Raising Elderly Parents, which explores the joys and struggles of caring f
In this episode of Infamous, Vanessa and her co-host Natalie Robehmed learn about a wild family drama from The Cut writer Angelina Chapin. It’s about Selena Gomez and her mother Mandy Teefey’s mental-health startup, Wond
Anna Holmes joins Vanessa to talk about the unnerving overlap between having a parent with dementia and experiencing perimenopause brain fog, and the terrifying question that raises: is this just aging, or the beginning
Josh Carter, grandson of President Jimmy Carter, grew up in a family where caregiving wasn’t just a value — it was a way of life. He talks with Vanessa about caring for a grandmother with memory loss, supporting a father
Writer Cody Delistraty joins Vanessa to talk about his book The Grief Cure, a quest narrative through loss, myth, medicine, and modern grief culture. From the controversial diagnosis of Prolonged Grief Disorder to the Am
What if cognitive decline isn’t inevitable? Dr. Majid Fotuhi, author of The Invincible Brain, explains why the brain is more changeable than we think, and how daily habits can affect blood flow, inflammation, and the mem
Vanessa talks with certified financial planner, MarketWatch columnist, and My Mother’s Money author Beth Pinsker about the maddening reality of financial caregiving. They cover long-term care insurance, reverse mortgages
Mal Young, the British television producer and writer best known for his work on The Young and the Restless, joins the show to talk about his parents. With warmth and candor, he reflects on their influence, quirks, and t
If you’re the one keeping the family together—texts, holidays, appointments, feelings—you’re probably “daughtering.” Vanessa talks with Baylor professor and communication expert Allison Alford, author of Good Daughtering
Josh Carter
principal in Johnson City, TN · Upstart Collective
1 appearance on this show
Majid Fotuhi
expert in Alzheimer's disease prevention and brain health optimization · Johns Hopkins Medical School
1 appearance on this show
Beth Pinsker
certified financial planner, MarketWatch columnist, author of My Mother’s Money · MarketWatch
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Allison Alford
Interpersonal Communication expert and author of Good Daughter: The Work You've Always Done, the Credit You've Never Gotten, and How to Finally Feel Like Enough · Baylor University
1 appearance on this show
Ai-jen Poo
President/CEO · National Domestic Workers Alliance
1 appearance on this show
Ryan Beck
1 appearance on this show
Candace Dellacona
Estate Planning Attorney and Sandwich Generation Survival Guide Podcast Host
1 appearance on this show
Pamela Wilson
host of The Caring Generation®
1 appearance on this show
Vanessa
certified subconscious reprogrammer · Empowered Birthing
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Corinne Low
PhD, Author of Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours · Wharton School
1 appearance on this show
Roy Wood Jr
comedian, writer, author
1 appearance on this show
Roy Wood, Jr.
comedian, writer, author
1 appearance on this show
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