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‘I’m Going to Put on Bright Clothes now’: The Process and Social Dimensions of Resilience Among Older Adults

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This article focuses on older adults' resilience following major losses. Interviews of seventeen older adults in Ireland illuminate the resilience process and its social dimensions - family, friends, social participation, formal supports, faith and spirituality. Becoming resilient is a process that develops through agential resolve contextualized by utilization of available resources. Those who had struggled to see themselves as resilient benefited from formal supports - such as counseling and social prescribing - that helped them to engage resilient agency. The resilience process presents as an internal resolution aided by social supports.

Source: Journal of Gerontological Social Work

DOI: 10.1080/01634372.2025.2471991

Authors: Carla Petautschnig, Virpi Timonen, Catherine Elliott O’Dare, Catherine Conlon

Institutions: Trinity College Dublin, University of Helsinki

Language: English

Topic: Resilience and Mental Health

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4408082760

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