Ministers responsible should be required to stay in a basement room wearing incontinence pads until they've read it cover to cover. If you are in the North America, look out for US/Canadian flag icons on popular product listings for direct links. And care home residents (I too hate the world clients) shouldn't need to have to be 'humanized' but Pope does bring out the people so lovingly, whilst still sharing what it's like when the people he's getting to know may be disinhibited, emotional, or disconnected in ways their families don't recognize, for worse and sometimes for better. When friends ask me what to read next, I will be suggesting this book until they’ve all read it too and passed it on.

I wish Pope a major success with this polemic on the current state of some of the private health care sector. When he slipped from “gentle repartee” into more risqué comedy, he was met with “raucous, delinquent laughter from the elders”. BBC Arts has commissioned Passion Pictures to make a new three-part boxset documentary series on Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor with Kim Kardashian on board as an exec producer.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. The book is fine, it doesn’t give any real insight into the profession other than it’s underpaid and hard. I'll Die After Bingo is his tough yet hilarious, intelligent and honest account of 9 ½ years caring of for the elderly.

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. 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. Anyone whose ever worked in care will nod their way through this ( and every scenario will be very familiar) Very good on the utter exhaustion of working long shifts, usually short staffed whilst still having to be ‘on it’ in every sense of the word.Chapeau Pope, you should very proud of creating such a beautiful and affecting piece of work - I'm sure I'm not the only one it will stay with forever. 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. Not an easy read, but if you want to know what care homes for the demented are like, and why, it's essential reading.

per cent national insurance tax increase will go far toward remedying the “ fundamental long-running” problems with the system. I'll Die After Bingo: The Unlikely Story of My Decade as a Care Home Assistant by Pope Lonergan - read 16. There were some funny bits but wish the author stayed on this path more as this is where the good bits were. He says that the trading of dark jokes alleviates the stress and sorrow that accumulates when you’re bearing daily witness to the undignified disintegration of your fellow humans. 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.

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. His writing is superb and his experience in the care sector makes this one of the most potent books on the subject of humanity.