Who Cares
In nearly ten years as a carer, Tom Petherick has lost count of the days and nights spent spoon-feeding mashed potato into old folk and changing their double incontinence pads.
Who Cares shines a light into a world which touches us all but which we would really rather not think about. But many of us might be forced to if a member of our family needs care or we do ourselves.
Tom has worked as a carer in a wide range of homes in England looking after residents with dementia and younger people with profound and complex needs - or the downright mad. The author gives us an honest account of how the time passes and reveals the reality of what it is like to work in care.
A political stance that wishes to solve the agonising problems around the care system is topical, but Tom's focus is, more, telling us how it is: the relationships between staff and residents, the characters he comes across, the routine, the food, the challenges and incidents, the desolation and the jokes.
This book is personal, intimate and humane. The author's voice is modest but affecting, funny, informative, important; indeed unique.
There is no one who shouldn't read this book.
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