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  • We Need to Talk About Mum & Dad

  • A Practical Guide to Parenting Our Ageing Parents
  • By: Jean Kittson
  • Narrated by: Jean Kittson
  • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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By: Jean Kittson
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Everything you need to know about supporting ageing parents, from author and comedian Jean Kittson.

This warm and witty practical guide is a one-stop shop for information on how to support your ageing loved ones: how to protect their health and wellbeing, keep them safe and secure, and enable them to be self-determining and independent for as long as possible.

Full of expert advice and first-hand experience, this is your go-to resource to help you:

* Navigate the bureaucratic maze while remaining sane
* Understand what is needed for your elder's health and wellbeing and how to get it, especially in a medical emergency
* Survive the avalanche of legal papers and official forms
* Choose the best place for them to live - home, retirement village, residential aged care, or granny and grandpa flat - and help your elders relocate with love and respect.

Compelled to discuss some of life's most confronting questions, Jean shares heartfelt stories and clear facts alongside wonderful cartoons from much-loved Australian cartoonist, Patrick Cook.

Following on from her 2014 bestseller, You're Still Hot to Me, a treatise on menopause, We Need to Talk About Mum and Dad is a guide to what happens when we become parents of our parents.

©2020 Jean Kittson (P)2020 Macmillan Australia Audio

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Full of useful and recent information, well researched expert advice, real stories and some real humour. Listened to this in the middle of a family health crisis which is/was pretty tragic, and actually laughed out loud at a few points which surprised me. Recommended.

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