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

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At the same time, Lonergan rails against a social and political system that underfunds and undervalues care work and the people who do it. Ultimately, Lonergan leaves the care sector due to burnout; unfortunately a common story among carers due to low wages, physically and emotionally intense work, and long shift hours. In addition to funny anecdotes, learn everything you ever wanted to know (and a few things you probably didn’t) about Britain’s care system, and be encouraged to think differently about the value of our elderly and the carers who look after them. Resident: (Closes eyes). That I'll never be touched again. That I won't be able to get to my heart. Lonergan said the TV version will be “both light and dark; uncompromising, poetic and very funny.” Writer of the TV version has not yet been set. Pope Lonergan is also incredibly excited stating that he was ‘buzzin’ to be working with Expectation’ and described the company as having a nice, insightful and talented team. He also added that the adaption will be ‘dark, uncompromising, poetic’ as well as extremely funny.

All parties involved in this new deal which will see ‘I’ll Die After Bingo’ hit our television screens have emphasised their excitement at this new project. I think if I'd have read just the memoir side of things then it would have been 4 or 5 stars. And similarly, if I'd read just the academic bits it would probably have been rated higher. But unfortunately they just didn't blend well and it really affected the reading experience. Whether he's initiating a coup d'état against new regulations with the residents, or forging a bond with the 98-year old who once called him a fat slut, Pope Lonergan work is infinitely varied. This no-holds-barred account shows what life inside a care home is really like, for both residents and carers. 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.Physical and mental deterioration is not something most people are comfortable witnessing, which is why so many elderly people end up in care homes. But it also means these are ‘out-of-sight, out-of-mind’ places, open to abuse both physical and financial. Why is it that we come to value to the care of those closest to us so little that it is farmed out to profit centres employing people on the lowest possible wages, who are forever leaving for easier ways to earn a crust?

This important memoir challenges us all to think differently about the value of our elderly, and also the carers who look after them. Expectation executive producer Morwenna Gordon said: ‘I was completelywon overby Pope’s writing. Honest, insightful, empathetic and with laugh out loud moments too. I’m so pleased to be working together to adapt this incredible book for TV." In I’ll Die After Bingo, the award-winning author provided a no-holds barred account, whether initiating a coup d’état against new regulations with the residents or forging a bond with a 98-year old who once called him a “fat slut.”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. The book is a no-holds-barred look into what life is really like for care workers and the British care system. He will make you laugh out loud with anecdotes from his time at the care home. This isn’t just a conscience-rebooting book. It’s also blisteringly well written, deeply humane and very funny. Take Lonergan’s account of his first shift, on which he was introduced to a “lanky and malnourished” resident called Clyde. “As he was mute,” explains the comic, “he had no way of transmitting his interiority, though his eyes were always wide as if he were permanently screaming in his head. This was offset by a small, ambiguous smile that never went away.” A few paragraphs later, Lonergan bears witness to an arc of deep red blood as Clyde starts urinating. “Woah,” exclaims the other carer. “His d---’s burst! We’re going to need a colander to catch the heart!” Night-time drama, incontinence pads and the uniquely dark humour of one double-amputee Alzheimer’s patient.

The book covers incidents such as the dark humour of a double-amputee Alzheimer's patient, Lonergan forging a bond with a 98-year old who called him a ‘fat slut’, and a care home's residents staging a coup d'état against new regulations. 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. If you are unfamiliar with ‘I’ll Die After Bingo’, this is a hit book from author Pope Lonergan. It is based on his time as a care worker after working in the elderly care sector for 10 years. He is also a comedian and recovering drug addict. On the other hand, Lonergan very clearly developed deeper links with those he was looking after, long-term, in care homes. They still say and do the most odd, sometimes transgressive, things – and Lonergan knows that’s too funny not to report, but we get a better understanding of the people behind the peculiarities.Executive producer Morwenna Gordon adds: "I was completely won over by Pope's writing. Honest, insightful, empathetic and with laugh out loud moments too. I'm so pleased to be working together to adapt this incredible book for TV." 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. Expectation Exec Morwenna Gordon added: “I was completely won over by Pope’s writing. Honest, insightful, empathetic and with laugh out loud moments too. I’m so pleased to be working together to adapt this incredible book for TV.” Clarkson’s Farmproducer Expectation is adapting comedian Pope Lonergan’s memoir about a decade spent caring for the elderly for TV.