Resilience: Definitions, ambiguities, and applications

Resilience in Aging: Concepts, Research, and Outcomes

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-13

  Allen, Rebecca S ^a   Haley, Philip P ^a   Harris, Grant M ^a   Fowler, Stevie N ^a   Pruthi, Roopwinder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0232-0_1     Document Type: Chapter

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