TAP reading note: Building an ontology of resilience: Insights from the physical resilience literature

What the study found

This scoping review examines what definitions of physical resilience assume about systems, perturbations and time. The authors propose a more explicit conceptual framework to help align future measurement.

Scope & limitations

Scoping review of experimental and conceptual physical-resilience literature in gerontology and rehabilitation.

The proposed framework is a contribution to an ongoing debate. It does not validate a universal resilience index or establish that all resilience is adequately represented by one recovery curve.

Population & sample

Scoping review of experimental and conceptual physical-resilience literature in gerontology and rehabilitation.

Exposure or intervention

Definitions of physical resilience and their underlying assumptions.

Outcomes

Conceptual coherence, domain boundaries and links between perturbation, recovery and whole-body function.

Time frame

Published in 2026; examines definitions rather than following one cohort over time.

Research funding

Not yet checked against the full publication.

Research conflicts of interest

Not yet checked against the full publication.

Reading scope

Based on the original publication’s abstract and bibliographic record. This is a selected reading note, not a systematic appraisal.

References

1. John Manning, Breanna Morales, Jennifer Yentes (2026). Building an ontology of resilience: Insights from the physical resilience literature. Ageing Research Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2026.103155

Publication record

TAP-RDN-0030 · v0.1 · English

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