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Resilience

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.

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Understand the response over time

In older-adult physical-health research, resilience concerns resisting or recovering from functional decline following health stressors. Definitions and measurement remain under development.[1]

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Always name the context

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]

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An observation, not a character verdict

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.

To understand resilience, specify the disturbance, the function being observed and the time frame.
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Recovery Is Not Rest

What does it actually mean to recover? From stopping an activity to observing how function changes over time.

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  1. Physical 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 · 2016

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  2. Recovery and Performance in Sport: Consensus Statement ↗

    Michael Kellmann · Maurizio Bertollo · Laurent Bosquet · Michel Brink · Aaron J. Coutts · et al.
    International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance · 2018

    Study record & citations
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