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Strategies for Bolstering Resilience in Older Adults

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Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS
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An expert talks briefly about interventions that can help bolster resilience and help older people recover quickly from adversity.

Resilience and aging: it’s a favorite theme of geropsychiatrist Helen Lavretsy, MD, MS. It’s the subject of her new book, Resilience and Aging: Research and Practice and the theme of a symposium at the APA Annual Meeting in New York City.Here, she talks briefly about interventions that can help bolster resilience and help older people recover quickly from adversity.

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