Resilience in women older than age 85 is defined as the response of rebound and
improvement in function after devastating illness. Using a snowball recruitment method, 7 …

Resilience in women older than 85 is defined as the ability to achieve, retain, or regain a
level of physical or emotional health after devastating illness or loss. This concept analysis …

This qualitative study was designed to identify and describe characteristics of successfully
adjusted older women. The participants reported a recent major loss and were considered …

This article discusses factors that contribute to resilience in older women. Face-to-face audio
taped interviews with seventeen women between the ages of seventy and eighty were the …

Resilience is defined as a positive personality characteristic enhancing individual
adaptation. Wagnild and Young (1993) defined resilience as a personality characteristic that …

Resilience has been recognized as the ability to bounce back from adversity and regain
health. This review seeks to explore the validity of the current understanding of resilience as …

BACKGROUND: Resilience, the ability to adapt positively to adversity, may be an important
factor in successful aging. However, the assessment and correlates of resilience in elderly …

The purpose of this literature review was to provide an overview of resilience for the purpose
of informing potential intervention designs that may benefit older adults. While numerous …

The author provides conceptual and operational definitions of the construct of resilience in
the context of research with older adults (aged 60 years or older). Two psychometric …

The purpose of this study was to compare the level of resilience of people aged≥ 60 years
in Sweden and Thailand. In a randomized sample of 422 people in Sweden and a …