TY - JOUR
T1 - An overview of the resilience world
T2 - Proceedings of the American Geriatrics Society and National Institute on Aging State of Resilience Science Conference
AU - Abadir, Peter M.
AU - Bandeen-Roche, Karen
AU - Bergeman, Cindy
AU - Bennett, David
AU - Davis, Daniel
AU - Kind, Amy
AU - LeBrasseur, Nathan
AU - Stern, Yaakov
AU - Varadhan, Ravi
AU - Whitson, Heather E.
N1 - Funding Information:
“Overview of the Resilience World: State of the Science,” a bench‐to‐bedside conference on October 12–13, 2022, was sponsored by the American Geriatrics Society and National Institute on Aging. This conference explored commonalities and differences among the frameworks of resilience most commonly used in aging research in the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial fields. A multidisciplinary panel of speakers shared differing perspectives and provided insights on the definitions of resilience and approaches to resilience research in their respective disciplines. Attendees considered what can be “borrowed” from each domain to better operationalize the concept of resilience and whether a unified working definition of “resilience” can be developed.
Funding Information:
We thank Deborah Berlyne, Ph.D., for her editorial assistance with the manuscript. We also thank Basil Eldadah, MD, PhD for his support and the moderators and presenters at this meeting whose remarks are summarized in this report: Opening Session: Peter Abadir, MD, Johns Hopkins University; Heather Whitson, MD, Duke University. Resilience in Action: What We Do (Not) Know: George Kuchel, MD, University of Connecticut; Anthony Ong, PhD, Cornell University; René Melis, MD, PhD, Radboud University Medical Center; Yaakov Stern, PhD, Columbia University; Amy Kind, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin. Toward a Holistic Concept of Resilience: Peter Abadir, MD, Johns Hopkins University; Cindy Bergeman, PhD, University of Notre Dame; Ravi Varadhan, PhD, Johns Hopkins University; Monica Rivera Mindt, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Bruce R. Troen, MD, University of Kansas and VA Kansas City Healthcare System; David Bennett, MD, Rush University Medical Center. Tools to Operationalize and Advance the Concept of Resilience: Daniel Davis, PhD, Hassell; LaVerne Brown, PhD, Office of Dietary Supplements; Nathan LeBrasseur, PhD, MS, Mayo Clinic; Kenneth Schmader, MD, Duke University; Ashwin Kotwal, MD, MS, University of California, San Francisco; Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD, Johns Hopkins University.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the American Geriatrics Society and a grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health (grant number 5R13AG054139).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The American Geriatrics Society.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Resilience, which relates to one's ability to respond to stressors, typically declines with age and the development of comorbid conditions in older organisms. Although progress has been made to improve our understanding of resilience in older adults, disciplines have employed different frameworks and definitions to study various aspects of older adults' response to acute or chronic stressors. “Overview of the Resilience World: State of the Science,” a bench-to-bedside conference on October 12–13, 2022, was sponsored by the American Geriatrics Society and National Institute on Aging. This conference, summarized in this report, explored commonalities and differences among the frameworks of resilience most commonly used in aging research in the three domains of resilience: physical, cognitive, and psychosocial. These three main domains are intertwined, and stressors in one domain can lead to effects in other domains. The themes of the conference sessions included underlying contributors to resilience, the dynamic nature of resilience throughout the life span, and the role of resilience in health equity. Although participants did not agree on a single definition of “resilience(s),” they identified common core elements of a definition that can be applied to all domains and noted unique features that are domain specific. The presentations and discussions led to recommendations for new longitudinal studies of the impact of exposures to stressors on resilience in older adults, the use of new and existing cohort study data, natural experiments (including the COVID-19 pandemic), and preclinical models for resilience research, as well as translational research to bring findings on resilience to patient care.
AB - Resilience, which relates to one's ability to respond to stressors, typically declines with age and the development of comorbid conditions in older organisms. Although progress has been made to improve our understanding of resilience in older adults, disciplines have employed different frameworks and definitions to study various aspects of older adults' response to acute or chronic stressors. “Overview of the Resilience World: State of the Science,” a bench-to-bedside conference on October 12–13, 2022, was sponsored by the American Geriatrics Society and National Institute on Aging. This conference, summarized in this report, explored commonalities and differences among the frameworks of resilience most commonly used in aging research in the three domains of resilience: physical, cognitive, and psychosocial. These three main domains are intertwined, and stressors in one domain can lead to effects in other domains. The themes of the conference sessions included underlying contributors to resilience, the dynamic nature of resilience throughout the life span, and the role of resilience in health equity. Although participants did not agree on a single definition of “resilience(s),” they identified common core elements of a definition that can be applied to all domains and noted unique features that are domain specific. The presentations and discussions led to recommendations for new longitudinal studies of the impact of exposures to stressors on resilience in older adults, the use of new and existing cohort study data, natural experiments (including the COVID-19 pandemic), and preclinical models for resilience research, as well as translational research to bring findings on resilience to patient care.
KW - cognitive
KW - physical
KW - psychosocial
KW - resilience
KW - stressors
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U2 - 10.1111/jgs.18388
DO - 10.1111/jgs.18388
M3 - Article
C2 - 37079440
AN - SCOPUS:85153500223
SN - 0002-8614
JO - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
JF - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
ER -