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Carla Petautschnig1, Virpi Timonen2, Catherine Elliott O'Dare1
1School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
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This article focuses on older adults' resilience following major losses. Interviews of seventeen older adults in Ireland illuminate the resilience process and its social dimensions - family, friends, social participation, formal supports, faith and spirituality. Becoming resilient is a process that develops through agential resolve contextualized by utilization of available resources. Those who had struggled to see themselves as resilient benefited from formal supports - such as counseling and social prescribing - that helped them to engage resilient agency. The resilience process presents as an internal resolution aided by social supports.
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