Let's Talk About Care

About Let's Talk About Care

This podcast highlights issues related to social care. We find out the funny, shocking and inspiring stories about care and hear from ministers, care professionals, celebrities and people giving and receiving care.

Publisher

Jill Rennie, Angeline Albert & Sue Learner

Category

health & fitness · news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Sept 2019

Latest episode

26 Oct 2022

Latest episodes

31 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Oct 2022

   Ep.30 Meet Joy Milne: The woman who can sniff out Parkinson's, Alzheimer's & cancer

   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. .

2. 

   10 Aug 2022

   Ep. 29 Kari Gerstheimer, Access Social Care CEO reveals how some battles for care are so 'harrowing' lawyers need counselling

   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.

3. 

   14 Jun 2022

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

   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.

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