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

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Featuring night-time drama, incontinence pads and the uniquely dark humour of one double-amputee Alzheimer's patient, here you can learn everything you ever wanted to know (and a few things you probably really didn't) about Britain's care system. He did actually portray himself as the best carer in the home with the best methods and the most caring nature this did grate a little as I am sure he had more than a few moments of being human and losing the plot. But it also means these are ‘out-of-sight, out-of-mind’ places, open to abuse both physical and financial. Perfectly outlines the profit driven aspect of care and paying multi skilled careers, under huge responsibility less than they would get in Aldi’s. great book and account of what it is like for care workers that work in care homes and are more often than not considered the lowest form of employment.

With Kay working obstetrics and gynaecology his relationship with many patients was brief, and many – save for the tragic cases that haunt him – appear in his book as little more than punchlines, albeit hilarious ones.Instead he prefers to engage in deeper conversation and often entertained his charges with comic outbursts. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. At the same time, Lonergan rails against a social and political system that underfunds and undervalues care work and the people who do it. 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.

Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. This book is brilliant - an amazing mix of dedication, empathy, laughs-out-loud and outrage about how the current government has abandoned the care system for elderly people to hedge funders and others who just want to make money out of the vulnerable. Published in June 2022, I'll Die After Bingo is described as a "tough yet hilarious, intelligent, and honest account" of the comic's account of what life inside a care home is really like, for both residents and carers. 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).According to a University of Massachusetts study, care workers face injury rates more than twice as high as those of construction workers.

Please get in touch and we will do our best to source your book, no matter how unusual or specialist.Many of his anecdotes and experiences resonate deeply with anyone who's had to have a relative in an aged care particularly with dementia. Pope Lonergan’s book I’ll Die After Bingo, about the comedian’s years working in elderly care, is being developed for TV. His writing is superb and his experience in the care sector makes this one of the most potent books on the subject of humanity. The references to academic books on the subject and his philosopising went over my head and I was not sure they were not just there to make us realise how well read and intellectual he was as opposed to the majority of care home workers .

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