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

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It does for care workers what doctor-turned-comedian Adam Kay’s 2017 memoir This is Going to Hurt did for medics. A truly refreshing perspective of work and life in the care industry with an unapologetic sense of humour in its tapestry that only Pope could deliver both sensitively and with the full force of a frying pan.

Pope Lonergan’s book I’ll Die After Bingo, about the comedian’s years working in elderly care, is being developed for TV. Only occasionally funny, and most of the humour was in the footnotes, (and I'm not a fan of footnotes). 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. He ignores memos on the “proper” (actually, patronising) ways to converse with residents, opening with questions like: “Is everybody having a safe afternoon?

Fair play, the guy has had a tough life and a tough job, but the book was overly flamboyant in terminology and description. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. She had slight dementia but right to the end she could have a conversation with us unless she had one of the dreaded infections. 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. She actually settled into the life reasonably well mainly keeping away from the other residents and having her meals in her room.

This book does for care home workers what This Is Going to Hurt did for junior doctors… this isn’t just a conscience-rebooting book. Resistant to viewing his charges in the soft focus tones of the home’s brochures, Lonergan admits that he’s scanned the communal area of the home and asked himself: “How many of these old men have beaten their wives?

The book is awash with credited quotes from other authors – which is actually a distraction, making some passages feel like dissertations citing their sources. per cent national insurance tax increase will go far toward remedying the “ fundamental long-running” problems with the system. For marketing purposes, Pope Lonergan’s book has, not unreasonably, been bracketed with Adam Kay’s publishing phenomenon, This Is Going To Hurt. While he shares his first hand experience, Pope also reflects on the state of the care system- it's over reliance on the underpaid and the risk of profit being prioritized over resident and staff welfare.

Expectation – the production company behind Alma’s Not Normal, Bridget Christie’s The Change and The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan – has struck a deal with publishers Penguin Random House to work on the project. Having visited a range of hospitals, respite care places and care homes in recent years for my dad, plus having had my own amusing catheter experiences in hospital stays of my own, I'm kind of inured to the various icky bodily topics involved when people are not capable of caring for themselves.Pope Lonergan is a stand up comedian from Essex, a recovering drug addict, and was for over a decade a care assistant in a variety of Care Homes. 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 .

A wonderful book in its own right, I loved the extra dynamic and humour Pope's narration of the audiobook brought to his words. Pope Lonergan is a stand-up comedian, author, Quaker, (recovering) drug addict and creator of ‘Pope’s Addiction Clinic’ and ‘The Care Home Tour’.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. I don't think it's possible to have a black comedic view of healthcare, aka Adam Kay, and at the same time discuss an intelligent in depth analysis of the system. And Hannah Weatherill, acting head of media rights with 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. 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.