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

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I expected more tales of life in a care home, which I would have enjoyed, having volunteered in one myself. The 30-year-old stand-up comedian attributes this shame to the “meagre” wage packet; the perception of the job as “grunt work”; a lack of support from the media and “the stigmatisation caused by abuse caught on hidden cameras”. Clarkson’s Farm producer Expectation is adapting for TV comedian Pope Lonergan‘s memoir about a decade spent caring for the elderly. On the other hand, Lonergan very clearly developed deeper links with those he was looking after, long-term, in care homes. 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.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.

His writing is superb and his experience in the care sector makes this one of the most potent books on the subject of humanity. When he slipped from “gentle repartee” into more risqué comedy, he was met with “raucous, delinquent laughter from the elders”. 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.I'll Die After Bingo, the book in which comedian Pope Lonergan talks about working in a care home for the elderly, is being adapted for television.

But while they each are comedians offering an often darkly funny first-hand account of the woefully underfunded health and social care system, writing with one eye towards raising their field up the political agenda, there are differences in approach. He thinks it’s absurd that he’s paid and valued more to stand on stage and tell jokes than he was keeping people alive. These characters provide much of the entertainment and humour of the book – as with the title quote, in which an elderly lady decides to postpone her death until after bingo has finished – but crucially, Lonergan portrays his subjects without caricature or cliché. It can only add to the picture you have of what it's like to work in the health and care sector in this country. 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.

I expected this to be more anecdotal and instead it felt like I was reading a text book with all the references. It is by turns an unflinchingly honest, dark, raw, moving and often very funny reflection on the British care system, and how society views and values those who work in it, and its residents. So he believes we need to remove the stigma from the realities of ageing and care work by bringing them into the open. 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. I tip my hat to Pope and all the Popes working hard and wiping all the arses that people like me wince at.

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’. Unlike the other reviews I actually really liked the memoire style and glad he didn't shy from including his opinions and politics.Pope presents an intelligent account of the fundamental caring profession, unexpurgated bodily fluids and scattered minds. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.