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    "key": "resilience",
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    "path": "/topics/resilience/",
    "title": "Resilience",
    "description": "Resilience research examines how individuals or systems resist, recover from or successfully adapt to disturbances. Definitions differ across psychological, cognitive and physiological research.",
    "rights": "© The Allostasis Project. All rights reserved. Reproduction or adaptation requires separate permission, subject to applicable legal exceptions.",
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    "sections": [
      {
        "id": "introduction",
        "title": "At a glance",
        "paragraphs": [
          "The capacity to adapt and recover in the face of change.",
          "Resilience research examines how individuals or systems resist, recover from or successfully adapt to disturbances. Definitions differ across psychological, cognitive and physiological research.",
          "To understand resilience, specify the disturbance, the function being observed and the time frame."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "response",
        "title": "Understand the response over time",
        "paragraphs": [
          "In older-adult physical-health research, resilience concerns resisting or recovering from functional decline following health stressors. Definitions and measurement remain under development.[1]"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "scope",
        "title": "Always name the context",
        "paragraphs": [
          "A finding in older adults after a health event cannot automatically define resilience in an athlete or an employee. Sport recovery work likewise emphasises the individual and the demands involved.[1][2]"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "boundaries",
        "title": "An observation, not a character verdict",
        "paragraphs": [
          "This project does not use resilience as a verdict on willpower. Specify the disturbance, the function and the observation period before discussing how a person or system responds."
        ]
      }
    ],
    "references": [
      {
        "id": "whitson-2016",
        "title": "Physical Resilience in Older Adults: Systematic Review and Development of an Emerging Construct",
        "authors": "Heather E. Whitson · Wei Duan-Porter · Kenneth E. Schmader · Miriam C. Morey · Harvey J. Cohen · Cathleen S. Colón-Emeric",
        "journal": "The Journals of Gerontology: Series A",
        "year": "2016",
        "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26718984/",
        "doi": "10.1093/gerona/glv202",
        "pmid": "26718984"
      },
      {
        "id": "kellmann-2018",
        "title": "Recovery and Performance in Sport: Consensus Statement",
        "authors": "Michael Kellmann · Maurizio Bertollo · Laurent Bosquet · Michel Brink · Aaron J. Coutts · Rob Duffield · Daniel Erlacher · Shona L. Halson · Anne Hecksteden · Jahan Heidari · K. Wolfgang Kallus · Romain Meeusen · Iñigo Mujika · Claudio Robazza · Sabrina Skorski · Ranel Venter · Jürgen Beckmann",
        "journal": "International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance",
        "year": "2018",
        "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29345524/",
        "doi": "10.1123/ijspp.2017-0759",
        "pmid": "29345524"
      }
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