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). Despite its rambling lack of structure I felt there were some interesting ideas about how care home staff and people with dementia or addiction are perceived. 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.

Ministers responsible should be required to stay in a basement room wearing incontinence pads until they've read it cover to cover.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. He has a wonderful turn of phrase, both serious and comic, realising that gallows humour is an essential release-valve in a demanding job witnessing decay and detachment. uk will use the information you provide on this form to be in touch with you and to provide updates and marketing. Then there’s Barry, who claims to have killed his wife, and Dennis who brags of his cruel treatment of the women he seduced while working as a bartender. 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.

in the department of gerontology , I believe Pope could be a positive force for good, bringing back a much needed sense of how it is. 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. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Old age is not easy, for the individual and for their relatives and carers we all know it but this book lays it out.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 is his tough yet hilarious, intelligent and honest account of 9 ½ years spent caring for the elderly. I tip my hat to Pope and all the Popes working hard and wiping all the arses that people like me wince at. This important memoir challenges us all to think differently about the value of our elderly, and also the carers who look after them. Fair play, the guy has had a tough life and a tough job, but the book was overly flamboyant in terminology and description.

People generally don't like to think about themselves or their loved ones needing this kind of care, and it's almost one of the last taboos. If you are in the North America, look out for US/Canadian flag icons on popular product listings for direct links. So they had to pretend the deceased was unwell and remove her from the lounge before the child realised what had happened. He also admits it scratched his itch for rebellion against the dehumanising rules imposed by managers focused on the “business-over-welfare model of profit extraction”, expecting better treatment for self-funding residents than those receiving government support. Unfortunately I found this book disappointing and it was more about the authors opinions on the care system.It does for care workers what doctor-turned-comedian Adam Kay’s 2017 memoir This is Going to Hurt did for medics.

So, I preferred some aspects of this book to others, but it is undeniably an important addition to the existing literature on social care.Instead he prefers to engage in deeper conversation and often entertained his charges with comic outbursts.