Ep. 28 Comedian Pope Lonergan talks about his new book 'I'll Die After Bingo' and his life as a care home worker

Host Angeline Albert talks to Joy Milne about what it's like to smell Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cancer and other diseases.  Her rare hereditary condition also meant she could smell her husband's Parkinson's 12 years before he was diagnosed.   
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Host Jill Rennie talks to Kari Gerstheimer about why she set up the charity and how the charity is giving free legal advice to  thousands of elderly and disabled people to access social care when they need it and  how the lack of funding and social care workforce shortage is exacerbating the crisis and increasing the workload of the charity.

Host Jill Rennie talks to comedian and author Pope Lonergan about his new book where he shares his raw and honest account of his time working as a care worker, his thoughts on care workers’  wages and retention, the need for society and the government to appreciate care workers and value the work they do, and his care home tour where he performs alongside the residents.

Host Jill Rennie talks to Dr Jane Townson about care workers being denied sick pay because the government has scrapped the infection control fund exacerbating workforce shortages, the problems providers are currently having when they try to recruit overseas care workers and how future technology used through the power of television could be a way to maintain people’s health at home.

Host Angeline Albert talks to Antony Loveless and former nurse Claire Hooper who describe how long Covid left them bedbound for the whole year in 2021. 

Host Sue Learner talks to Amanda Woodvine about the importance of respecting the beliefs of older vegetarians and vegans living in care homes, many of whom have dementia and will have forgotten they don't eat meat

Host Jill Rennie talks to Vic Rayner, CEO of the National Care Forum (NCF) about how social care is viewed in the eyes of the government since the pandemic, how the government should have handled the mandatory vaccine policy and how technology will play an integral role in the future of social care.

Host Sue Learner talks to Camille Leavold, managing director of Abbots Care, a home care provider in the south east of England, about how they have been coping during the pandemic, what she thinks of mandatory vaccination for home care workers and her solution for the recruitment crisis.

Host Angeline Albert talks to traumatic brain injury expert Dr Willie Stewart who says footballs should be sold with a health warning because his study reveals professional footballers have a 5 times higher risk of getting Alzheimer's because of headers.   

Host Jill Rennie talks to Stephen Chandler, president of ADASS, about adult social care, his appearance on BBC One's Panorama, the government's response to the pandemic and how care work is still undervalued and misunderstood.