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Resilience and Healthy Ageing Network

Meetings

 

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4th December 2009

Summary of the notes of the meeting.

Summary of work in progress - download presentation here.

30th September 2009

Summary of work in progress - download presentation here.

Notes of the meeting 30th September 2009.

The International Resilience Project.

Interventions for promoting resilience.

Resilience measurement scales.

 

First meeting - 19th May 2009

1. Re-cap on the aims and research questions of the network - download presentation here

2. Round table discussion/individual presentations – what is resilience and what are its influences?

   

Individual presentations available to download below

Dr. Gill Windle, Dementia Services Development Centre, IMSCaR, Bangor University. What is resilience?

Dr. Gopalkrishan Netuveli, Imperial College, London. Approaches used in the study of resilience.

Professor Amanda Sacker, Institute of Economic and Social Research, Essex University. Definitions and determinants of resilience.

Professor Bob Woods, Dementia Services Development Centre, IMSCaR, Bangor University. Older people: a clinical psychologists perspective.

Dr. Kate Bennett, University of Liverpool. Achieving Resilience in later life.

Dr. Cherie McCracken, School of Population, Community and Behavioural Sciences, University of Liverpool. Biological resilience and cognitive function in the over 65s.

Some other comments on resilience:

" I think some people are born resilient. If you have a room full of toddlers, most will fall over at some time, some of them will get up and start off again, whilst others will sit there crying until someone comes to them. "

"Resilience can be developed through exposure to a difficulty - you have to fight for everything – it gives you a different perspective’"

"Resilience is like a bouncing ball – a resilient person bounces back and keeps going"