REVIEW article
Front. Aging
Sec. Healthy Longevity
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fragi.2025.1520842
This article is part of the Research TopicResilience in AgingView all 7 articles
From Frailty to Resilience: Exploring Adaptive Capacity and Reserve in Older Adults - A Narrative Review
Provisionally accepted
- Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
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Resilience, the capacity to adapt and recover from adversity, plays a critical role in the health and well-being of older adults. In geriatric populations, resilience encompasses physical, cognitive, and psychosocial domains and is essential for maintaining functional independence and quality of life amidst the challenges of aging. This review explores the concept of resilience within geriatric medicine across physical, cognitive, and psychosocial domains, highlights the differences from frailty and reserve, underscores importance of stressors, summarizes key biomarkers that predict resilience, and evaluates interventions designed to enhance resilience in older adults.
Keywords: Reserve1, frailty2, Disability, older adults, Alzheimer's disease, Psychosocial resilience, Physical resilience, Cognitive Resilience8
Received: 31 Oct 2024; Accepted: 10 Jun 2025.
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* Correspondence: Peter Abadir, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
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