I'll Die After Bingo: My unlikely life as a care home assistant

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I did struggle a bit to read the book and i did zone out to parts of it but can't really tell why it made me feel like that. Hannah Weatherill, Acting Head of Media Rights, Penguin Random House, said: “Pope’s memoir about his work as a carer is extraordinary – he captures the personalities of the residents, their families, and his colleagues in all their complexity with incredible empathy and humour. The personal care work stories were as just as you'd expect patients with dementia saying odd stuff so not sure why so many reviews want more of that.

And care home residents (I too hate the world clients) shouldn't need to have to be 'humanized' but Pope does bring out the people so lovingly, whilst still sharing what it's like when the people he's getting to know may be disinhibited, emotional, or disconnected in ways their families don't recognize, for worse and sometimes for better. I’m very grateful they’ve taken a punt on me (a recovering Crack ‘ead Quaker) and my book (a book that includes a line about swallowing boobs). per cent national insurance tax increase will go far toward remedying the “ fundamental long-running” problems with the system.A wonderful book in its own right, I loved the extra dynamic and humour Pope's narration of the audiobook brought to his words. Old age is not easy, for the individual and for their relatives and carers we all know it but this book lays it out. Lots of times he goes into unnecessary descriptive rants for mundane things and it’s does seem like he’s really trying too hard, it was needed. So, I preferred some aspects of this book to others, but it is undeniably an important addition to the existing literature on social care.

It's subtitled as a story of a decade as a Care Home Assistant but it seems to be stuck in this really disjointed state of being part academic and part memoir. I’ve been a fan of the ‘professional memoir’ genre since reading Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt, a darkly comedic diary of Kay’s time as a junior doctor in the NHS – and Lonergan’s book is a valuable contribution from the rarely-heard perspective of a care worker. Nominated for the Chortle Comedy Book Award this year, the memoir has been described as ‘blisteringly well written, deeply humane and very funny’ by the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail stated it’s ‘enough to make you die laughing’. i loved the comic angle lonergan approaches the caring profession from, and also his absolute honesty about it. I'm very grateful they've taken a punt on me (a recovering Crack 'ead Quaker) and my book (a book that includes a line about swallowing boobs).

Read more about the condition New: An item that is still in its original shrink wrap from the manufacturer and the original manufacturer’s seal (if applicable) has not been removed. Hats off to the author Pope Lonergan for his incisive and witty commentaries about a broken system of aged care, with the carers being the lowest form of life.

Homes are also struggling to recruit and retain their workers, with a 10th of job vacancies unfilled.Why is it that we come to value to the care of those closest to us so little that it is farmed out to profit centres employing people on the lowest possible wages, who are forever leaving for easier ways to earn a crust? Was really looking forward to reading this expecting the equivalent to Adam Kay’s anecdotes from hospital wards. A few paragraphs later, Lonergan bears witness to an arc of deep red blood as Clyde starts urinating. We spend time with tanned and stylish Sue, who confuses her male carer with her husband and is furious he won’t have sex with her. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.