Resilience and longevity: expert survivorship of centenarians
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Centenarians are survivors, and many among them exemplify sustained competence into very old age. This paper highlights three important resilience domains among centenarians: personal resilience (e.g., personality), cognitive resilience (e.g., intellectual functioning), and social and economic resilience (e.g., social support and economic resources). Disciplines Gerontology Comments This chapter is published as Martin, P., MacDonald, M., Margrett, J. A., & Poon, L. W. (2010). Resilience among the oldest-old. In P. S. Fry & C. L. M. Keyes (Eds.), Frontiers of Resilient Aging, 213-238. Cambridge University Press. Posted with permission. This book chapter is available at Iowa State University Digital Repository: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/hdfs_pubs/65 8 Resilience and longevity: expert survivorship
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