ESSENTIAL 5 · READING GUIDE
Reserve & Resilience
Separate capacity from response, and follow how different fields define resilience.
A curated introduction to the question, with a reason to read each selection. This guide is not a systematic review or an evidence ranking.
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Begin across disciplines: what do different researchers mean by resilience?
2014 · Conceptual reviewResilience definitions, theory, and challenges: interdisciplinary perspectives
Steven M. Southwick · George A. Bonanno · Ann S. Masten · Catherine Panter-Brick · Rachel Yehuda
European Journal of Psychotraumatology - 02
Narrow the focus to physical health: how is reserve distinguished from resilience?
2016 · Systematic reviewPhysical Resilience in Older Adults: Systematic Review and Development of an Emerging Construct
Heather E. Whitson · Wei Duan-Porter · Kenneth E. Schmader · Miriam C. Morey · Harvey J. Cohen · Cathleen S. Colón-Emeric
The Journals of Gerontology: Series A - 03
Follow a disturbance and its aftermath: what might a recovery trajectory reveal?
2019 · ReviewResilience in Clinical Care: Getting a Grip on the Recovery Potential of Older Adults
Sanne M. W. Gijzel · Heather E. Whitson · Ingrid A. van de Leemput · Marten Scheffer · Dieneke van Asselt · Jerrald L. Rector · Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert · René J. F. Melis
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - 04
Compare another field: how are cognitive reserve, brain reserve and maintenance defined?
2020 · Conceptual reviewWhitepaper: Defining and investigating cognitive reserve, brain reserve, and brain maintenance
Yaakov Stern · Eider M. Arenaza‐Urquijo · David Bartrés‐Faz · Sylvie Belleville · Marc Cantilon · Gael Chetelat · Michael Ewers · Nicolai Franzmeier · Gerd Kempermann · William S. Kremen · Ozioma Okonkwo · Nikolaos Scarmeas · Anja Soldan · Chinedu Udeh‐Momoh · Michael Valenzuela · Prashanthi Vemuri · Eero Vuoksimaa · and the Reserve, Resilience and Protective Factors PIA Empirical Definitions and Conceptual Frameworks Workgroup
Alzheimer's & Dementia - 05
Return to the vocabulary: how can an ontology help organise physical resilience research?
2026 · Conceptual reviewBuilding an ontology of resilience: Insights from the physical resilience literature
John Manning · Breanna Morales · Jennifer Yentes
Ageing Research Reviews
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Choose a question. Read the selections in order, then explore the full library.
Allostatic Load
From the cost of adaptation to the choices behind a multi-system index.
Recovery Science
Connect recovery at work, after lost sleep and in sport—while keeping the outcomes distinct.
Reserve & Resilience
Separate capacity from response, and follow how different fields define resilience.
Measurement
Understand what a signal, questionnaire or composite index actually measures.
Selected for a useful reading sequence. The order is not an evidence ranking.