Jean Kittson's latest book, We Need to Talk About Mum & Dad has everything you need to know about supporting ageing parents.

We Need To Talk About Mum & Dad is a warm and witty practical guide, a one-stop shop for information on how to support your ageing loved ones: how to protect their health and well-being, 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 well-being 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.

'We Need to Talk About Mum & Dad' by Jean Kittson is available to buy now at: 

Pan Macmillan Australia | Dymocks | iTunes  

Amazon | Audio | Booktopia (signed copies)