Why Is Grandma Naked?: Caring for Your Aging Parent

In this humorous self-help book, award-winning journalist and attorney Ellen Pober Rittberg serves as a guide and cheerleader to family members who undertake to care for their elderly parents.Sharing the stresses and satisfactions when caring for her aging mother, Rittberg uses comical chapter headings such as: Be The Alpha DogBoundaries? Huh? Your Aging Parent Has NoneYour Parent May Develop Sticky FingersJEOPARDY! (why elderly parents need their favorite show even when they can't answer any of the questions)Rittberg employs an upbeat breezy, can-do tone. She details common scenarios and techniques she used when caring for her aging parent at home, such as: Toilet training your senior parents using the "rump on the hump" technique when incontinence is an issueTaking away car keys before reading about a parent in a newspaper crime blotterTheir hobby of digging deep into their nostrils and other recessesStaying awake while hearing the nineteenth retelling of childhood stories from your parent with dementiaPlaying matchmaker to hired caregiversAvoiding shopping trips turning into shoplifting tripsUnderstanding declining parents' sometimes hilarious fantasies and delusions.Rittberg shares with readers the life-changing, humbling and deeply rewarding benefits of caring for elderly parents and knows a good belly laugh is the best stress reliever.