Unravelling the Layers of Chronic Illness and Loneliness

Sophie Lewis is Associate Professor of Health Sociology at the University of Sydney, Australia. Karen Willis is Professor of Public Health at Victoria University, Australia. Lorraine Smith is Professor of Research Psychology at the University of Sydney, Australia. Maja Lindegaard Moensted is Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. Marika Franklin is Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. Leslie Dubbin is Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. Anne Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Insignificant, Irrelevant, and Alienated: Types of Loneliness While Navigating Chronic Illness.- Chapter 3: ‘The Life I Should Have Lived’: The Significance of Time in Experiencing Chronic Illness and Loneliness.- Chapter 4: Navigating Support and Relationships with Others.- Chapter 5: Reaching In, Branching Out: Strategies for Navigating Loneliness:.- Chapter 6: Bridging Connection? Digital Spaces and Communities.- Chapter 7: Feeling at Home, Having Places to Go: The Place Dimensions of Loneliness.- Chapter 8: Loneliness of Care, Care for the Lonely.- Chapter 9: Loneliness in Chronic Illness Care: Health and Community care professionals’ perspectives.- Chapter 10: Reimagining Connection in Chronic Illness: Towards Inclusive Approaches to Loneliness.