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A TIME TO CARE

Eleanor Bloomfield

ISBN 978-1-83574-056-9

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Publication: 31 OCTOBER 2024
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ISBN: 9781835740569
Price: £9.99

Binding: Paperback
Format: 198 x 129 mm

Extent: 216 pp
Illustrated: None

Thema: DMC Memoir

Author location: Leicestershire

• Inspired by the authors time working as a care
assistant in residential dementia care between
2020-2022.
• It seeks to shed light on the experiences of
care home residents, especially during the
unprecedented conditions of lockdown.
• Perfect for fans of Adam Kay, Rachel Clarke
and Kate Mosse.

A Time to Care offers a hard-hitting insider’s account of the
Eleanor Bloomfield holds a doctorate in medieval drama and has a impact of the coronavirus pandemic in residential care
background in research and teaching. Originally from New Zealand, homes around Britain.
she relocated to the UK at the beginning of 2020, becoming caught
up in the COVID-19 pandemic. She spent two years working in A deeply personal story with much wider resonance, it lays
residential dementia care, an experience documented in her non- bare what you don’t know and what care home operators
fiction work A Time to Care. She now works in the University of don’t want you to know. Describing the toll inflicted by the
Leicester Archives and Special pandemic on residents and staff alike, it also recalls the
Collections. courage and generosity inspired by extraordinary
circumstances.

A Time to Care is a challenge, a call to action, and a plea
for you not to look away. It sheds light on the day-today
experiences of care home residents, calling for greater
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