Confessions of a care home worker
‘Am I dead? I feel quite dead,’ says Sylvia.
‘Nah, you’re fine,’ I tell her
Stand-up comedian Pope Lonergan spent ten years working in care
homes. The 30 -year-old from Essex returned at the start of the pandemic
when comedy venues closed. Here’s everything you ever wanted to know
- and a few things you probably didn’t – about Britain’s care system
PORTRAIT Mark Harrison