The Johns Hopkins Older Americans Independence Center studies the resilience-to-frailty spectrum: First, its major concepts and research contributions are outlined. Then, they described the recent Study of Physical Resilience and Aging, which implemented stimulus-response tests to characterize physiological fitness in older adults scheduled for major stressors (e.g., total knee replacement-TKR). The team reported work to develop physiologic resilience measures from these stimulus-response data and study their associations with functional resilience following TKR, which builds on a recently published pilot study. This study lays groundwork to better foster older adults’ resilience to stressors and, ultimately, overall health.
