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

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I look forward to seeing his live shows if ever he brings them to the Adelaide Fringe, which would possibly be a very good platform for them. Also a stand up comic, there's a surprisingly light touch to Pope's writing considering the challenging nature of his subject matter.

This important memoir challenges us all to think differently about the value of our elderly, and also the carers who look after them. Pope presents an intelligent account of the fundamental caring profession, unexpurgated bodily fluids and scattered minds. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Once again care homes have entered my life as my in laws are now bouncing between hospital and care homes. This no-holds-barred account shows what life inside a care home is really like, for both residents and carers.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. On the other hand, Lonergan very clearly developed deeper links with those he was looking after, long-term, in care homes.

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. There were some funny bits but wish the author stayed on this path more as this is where the good bits were. If you are in the North America, look out for US/Canadian flag icons on popular product listings for direct links.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. And once we’ve seen what the job requires, we’ll all push for “wage increases, better training and more resources for the care home employees.

I'll Die After Bingo: The Unlikely Story of My Decade as a Care Home Assistant by Pope Lonergan - read 16. I expected more tales of life in a care home, which I would have enjoyed, having volunteered in one myself. According to a University of Massachusetts study, care workers face injury rates more than twice as high as those of construction workers. Pope knows from the inside what life is like in care homes - - he is not knocking the staff (although he gently takes the mick out of one or two colleagues) but the system. 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.I’ll Die After Bingo is a very funny, honest, sad and intelligent book detailing Pope’s 10 years as a Care Home Assistant as well his struggle with drug addiction. Such unfiltered frankness makes real the trials and tribulations of the care home and its residents that so widely overlooked.

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