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About
We focus on resilience as the ability to resist, recover from and adapt to stressors. Monitoring, predicting and improving both mental and physical resilience is crucial as a patient with too little resilience will not have good outcomes, regardless of the quality of treatment of the disease.
Aims
- We aim at filling the most relevant knowledge gaps on mental and physical resilience in a clinical perspective.
- We will study measuring Resilience and develop and validate a resilience measurement framework taking.
- We will study how to best manage, monitor and improve physical and mental resilience.
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- How are systems across multiple spatial and temporal scales involved in the emergence of resilience of aging humans against health stressors?
- How does resilience come about?
- How are human systemic resilience and subsystem resiliencies related?
- How do physical and cognitive resilience relate?
- How do resilienc(ies) in different organ systems and the person as a whole change across the aging life span?
- What is the relation of resilience with type, intensity and timing of stressors?
- How to quantify the intensity of a stressor?
- How is the resilience of the older individual related to the resilience of the social system (family)?
- Is lack of resilience a valid marker of closeness of dying and can it be used to add value in palliative care.
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- Stressor (type and intensity)
- Outcome (trajectory): multidimensional
- Predictors
- Multidimensional
- Structure of system: static indicators of resilience, e.g., frailty
- Process/function operated by system: dynamic indicators of resilience
- What are valid bio-, psycho- and system markers of high and low resilience, which may be valid in clinical decision making?
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- Triage & clinical decision support systems
- Actively support resource (recruitment) available for resilience
- Integrate with prehabilitation and (geriatric) rehabilitation support programmes for better targeting
- Teaching and training programmes for a sustainable and resilient healthcare system
