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What Do We Know About Resilience in Older Adults? An Exploration of Some Facts, Factors, and Facets

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Conceptualizing resilience in older adults presents unique potentials and pitfalls. Facts, factors, and facets that influence or are, in turn, affected by resilience are subjects of ongoing research. The purpose of this chapter is to construct a framework for sorting out the complex, confusing, and sometimes conflicting relationships among these different dimensions. We employ an interdisciplinary approach, highlighting the important contributions that different fields of study make to an understanding of the concept of resilience related to older adults . This chapter is structured around the following key dimensions of resilience : (1) traits and processes, (2) stresses and adversities, (3) life story and narrative , (4) life meaning and spirituality , (5) resilience metaphors , and (6) specific components of the resilience repertoire. It concludes with a discussion of how this deconstruction and interrogation can create a conceptual and practical framework.

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  3. Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, 02881, USA

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Clark, P.G., Burbank, P.M., Greene, G., Riebe, D. (2018). What Do We Know About Resilience in Older Adults? An Exploration of Some Facts, Factors, and Facets. In: Resnick, B., Gwyther, L., Roberto, K. (eds) Resilience in Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04555-5_4

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