WEBINAR — Mar 11, 2026

Research on loneliness in advanced life-threatening illness: A focus on what we can do in our local communities

Summary:

For people living with advanced life-threatening illness, potential risk factors, and outcomes of loneliness can be related in complex ways. Evidence suggests an integrated, multilevel approach is needed.  In this webinar, speakers will share what the evidence is telling us about loneliness in this population and focus on two promising evidence-based interventions: Compassionate Communities and Men’s Sheds.  An interactive panel discussion in the second half of the webinar will assess where future practice and research priorities might focus.

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Useful resources related to this webinar:

1. ‘There’s something about admitting that you are lonely’ – prevalence, impact and solutions to loneliness in terminal illness: An explanatory sequential multi-methods study  

2. Loneliness in Advanced Life-Threatening Illness: An Integrative Review

3. Explaining how and why social support groups in hospice day services benefit palliative care patients, for whom, and in what circumstances

4. Compassionate Communities Position Paper - Fostering Compassionate Communities: A Call to Transform Caregiving, Dying, Death and Grieving on the Island of Ireland

5. “You’re the first person who’s sat on that sofa in 12 months” - Experiences of loneliness among people at the end of life and their carers in Northern Ireland

6. Compassionate School Communities: Embedding a culture and practice of grief education and bereavement support in educational settings 

7. Dying in the Margins; The Cost of Dying

8. Dying in the margins: Experiences of dying at home for people living with financial hardship and deprivation

9. The photos that chronicle the cost of dying

10. Bringing care closer to home

11. Extending frailty care

12. Setting up a Men's Shed

13. Compassionate communities position paper. Fostering compassionate communities: a call to transform caregiving, dying, death and grieving on the island of Ireland

Key speakers:
Dr Natasha Bradley (Chair), Senior Research Fellow, Marie Curie, University College London
Dr Carolyn Blair, Postdoctoral research fellow, Queen’s University Belfast
Dr Emma Maun, Quantitative Research Manager, Marie Curie
Dr Lisa Graham-Wisener, Reader in Health Psychology , School of Psychology at Queen's University Belfast
Rachel Perry, Research Nurse , Marie Curie Hospice West Midlands
Irene Johnstone, Head of Operations for North West Scotland, Marie Curie

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