Description: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 chapters such as: Be the Alpha Dog; Boundaries? Huh? Your Aging Parent Has None; Your Parent May Develop Sticky Fingers; Jeopardy! (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 she used when caring for her aging parent at home, such as: toilet training your senior parent on the "rump on the hump" technique when incontinence is an issue; taking away the car keys before reading about a parent in a newspaper crime blotter; their hobby of digging deep into their nostrils and other recesses; how to stay awake while hearing the nineteenth retelling of childhood stories; dementia delusions; playing matchmaker to hired caregivers; avoiding shopping trips turning into shoplifting trips; understanding 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Why is Grandma Naked? Caring for Your Aging Parent. To get started finding Why is Grandma Naked? Caring for Your Aging Parent, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
155
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
—
Release
2021
ISBN
0578828626
Why is Grandma Naked? Caring for Your Aging Parent
Description: 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 chapters such as: Be the Alpha Dog; Boundaries? Huh? Your Aging Parent Has None; Your Parent May Develop Sticky Fingers; Jeopardy! (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 she used when caring for her aging parent at home, such as: toilet training your senior parent on the "rump on the hump" technique when incontinence is an issue; taking away the car keys before reading about a parent in a newspaper crime blotter; their hobby of digging deep into their nostrils and other recesses; how to stay awake while hearing the nineteenth retelling of childhood stories; dementia delusions; playing matchmaker to hired caregivers; avoiding shopping trips turning into shoplifting trips; understanding 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Why is Grandma Naked? Caring for Your Aging Parent. To get started finding Why is Grandma Naked? Caring for Your Aging Parent, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.