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

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Pope Lonergan is a stand-up comedian, author, Quaker, (recovering) drug addict and creator of ‘Pope’s Addiction Clinic’ and ‘The Care Home Tour’. The bottom-line watching corporate model is gaining traction, meaning less money going into actual care, and more carer burn out.

According to a University of Massachusetts study, care workers face injury rates more than twice as high as those of construction workers. I appreciate Covid came after he had left but it seems a little odd for a book about the care sector to be published in 2022 and not reference it at all. So far they have not had such a good experience as they are different characters to my mam who was quite accepting though she knew what she wanted and got it ie room service as far as I know in her home there was the usual turnover of staff and though they were kind no special bond was formed with any of them. In the creative industries (ergh) cultivating relationships is really important – and luckily Expectation is full of the nicest, most insightful and talented ‘TV people’ you’ll ever find.I found the form and structure of the book to be a little less successful; Lonergan blends reminiscent stories with social/political commentary, and while both parts are valuable, I, like other reviewers, found the combination to be clunky. PO Box, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greenland, Guam, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Republic of the Congo, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U. uk will use the information you provide on this form to be in touch with you and to provide updates and marketing. Expectation has struck a deal with Penguin Random House to develop Pope Lonergan’s book I’ll Die After Bingo for TV, “a tough yet hilarious, intelligent, and honest account draws on Pope’s decade of caring for the elderly.

He has recounted many anecdotes from his experience in providing "end of life care" in this interesting, although not well structured book. It does for care workers what doctor-turned-comedian Adam Kay’s 2017 memoir This is Going to Hurt did for medics. i loved the comic angle lonergan approaches the caring profession from, and also his absolute honesty about it.Unlike the other reviews I actually really liked the memoire style and glad he didn't shy from including his opinions and politics. They still say and do the most odd, sometimes transgressive, things – and Lonergan knows that’s too funny not to report, but we get a better understanding of the people behind the peculiarities. 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. Hannah Weatherill from Penguin Random House comments: "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.