Resilience and longevity: expert survivorship of centenarians

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MacDonald, Maurice
Poon, Leonard
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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).

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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.

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