When published self-help author and award-winning journalist Ellen Pober Rittberg moved in to help her aging mother for a temporary stay that lasted six years, she readily admits she was clueless despite having represented senior citizens for years. In an upbeat, breezy you-can-do-this tone, Why is Grandma Naked? Caring for an Aging Parent describes the most common scenarios, stresses, weirdness and joys of caregiving an aging parent. Her A to Z chapters include: incontinence and learning the skill of timely getting a parent's "rump on the (toilet seat) hump"; how to avoid having shopping excursions turn into shoplifting forays; why declining parents no longer give a fig about being clothed or following any of the rules of civilized behavior; their fascination with, the insides of their noses and their radically-changing taste (in her mother's case, her new-found obsession with the Progressive Insurance Lady and silly commercials). Rittberg encourages others to undertake the rewarding and transforming journey of caregiving a loved one, which she describes as a blessing. Rittberg's first humorous self-help book, 35 Things Your Teen Won't Tell You, So I Will, about raising three close in age kids and maintaining her sanity contains similar belly laughs and self-revelations. Her poetry book, He is Walking Wider, will be published by Kelsay Books in June,2021. Ellen Pober Rittberg is an award-winning journalist, attorney and humorous self-help author whose newest book, Why is Grandma Naked? Caring for Your Aging Parent is coming out in March. When Ellen moved in temporarily with her mother after her mom returned from a rehabilitation center stay after a fall, Ellen ended up staying six years. She shares all the many satisfying, stressful and laugh-out-loud weird experiences and encourages others to take on the task, which she describes as life-changing (for the better). Part cheerleader, part humorous honest memoirist, she talks among other things, about the in's and out's of toileting, parents' etiquette challenges and some elderly parents' innocent desire to pilfer when they decline and begin to suffer from dementia. Ellen's first humorous self-help book, 35 Things Your Teen Won't Tell You, So I Will tells how she raised three now-adult kids born within three years of each other and stayed sane and didn't do their laundry. Ellen served as a law guardian for hundreds of children for 13 years, but none of her book contain legal advice. Her humorous essays and features have been published in the NY Times, HuffPost, Reader's Digest, Newsday and other large platforms. She hosted and produced a live cable t. v. show, "The Changing Family," for which he won a major award. Her upcoming poetry book, He is Walking Wider is due out in June, 2021 from Kelsay Books.