Project Details
Description
Tp develop a theoretical framework and operationalization of resilience that can be used in ongoing and future empirical studies on older disabled persons.
What makes this concept potentially promising and in any case attractive, is that it marks a shift away from a predominantly problem-oriented approach on the avoidance of negative outcomes, towards a focus on strengths and positive outcomes. For when it comes to aging, we know more about losses, dysfunction and disease, than about what it means to be healthy and doing well nor about the mechanisms by which older people successfully adapt to incidents threatening their health and functioning. Indeed: what we know about health is still highly based on the study of illness, disease and frailty. Resilience offers a counterpart to the presently still dominant negative operationalization of human vulnerability. It potentially also offers a more realistic view on the future of old age in comparison to the ideal of successful aging as advocated by Rowe & Kahn and protagonists of compression theory (‘people are not invulnerable, but resilient’).
What makes this concept potentially promising and in any case attractive, is that it marks a shift away from a predominantly problem-oriented approach on the avoidance of negative outcomes, towards a focus on strengths and positive outcomes. For when it comes to aging, we know more about losses, dysfunction and disease, than about what it means to be healthy and doing well nor about the mechanisms by which older people successfully adapt to incidents threatening their health and functioning. Indeed: what we know about health is still highly based on the study of illness, disease and frailty. Resilience offers a counterpart to the presently still dominant negative operationalization of human vulnerability. It potentially also offers a more realistic view on the future of old age in comparison to the ideal of successful aging as advocated by Rowe & Kahn and protagonists of compression theory (‘people are not invulnerable, but resilient’).
Key findings
Resilience in older persons: A systematic review of the conceptual literature.
Angevaare MJ, Roberts J, van Hout HPJ, Joling KJ, Smalbrugge M, Schoonmade LJ, Windle G, Hertogh CMPM. Ageing Res Rev. 2020 Nov;63:101144. doi: 10.1016/j.arr.2020.101144
The Effects of the 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown on Mood, Behavior, and Social and Cognitive Functioning in Older Long-Term Care Residents.
Angevaare MJ, Joling KJ, Smalbrugge M, Hertogh CMPM, Twisk JWR, van Hout HPJ.
J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2022 Sep;23(9):1608.e9-1608.e18. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2022.07.003
Angevaare MJ, Roberts J, van Hout HPJ, Joling KJ, Smalbrugge M, Schoonmade LJ, Windle G, Hertogh CMPM. Ageing Res Rev. 2020 Nov;63:101144. doi: 10.1016/j.arr.2020.101144
The Effects of the 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown on Mood, Behavior, and Social and Cognitive Functioning in Older Long-Term Care Residents.
Angevaare MJ, Joling KJ, Smalbrugge M, Hertogh CMPM, Twisk JWR, van Hout HPJ.
J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2022 Sep;23(9):1608.e9-1608.e18. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2022.07.003
| Status | Finished |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 1/05/2018 → 31/12/2022 |