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		<title>How Participation in Sports Influences the Experience of Aging</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Davy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study in the Journal of Aging Studies explores how participation in sports influences older adults’ understanding of age and aging. In particular, the study explored how sports participation challenged dominant assumptions about older adulthood. The author argues that participation in sports may lead older adults to challenge negative associations with aging through a focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resilience: The Power to Persevere &amp; Prevail</title>
		<link>http://aginginaction.com/2012/04/resilience-the-power-to-persevere-prevail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Hamilton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring always brings growth and new beginnings in the world around us, but inside a caregiver’s world, there may be decline or an ending on the horizon. My dad died in early May several years ago. Though I didn’t know it at the time, my mom still had years of dementia ahead.         
The daffodils may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging Well Despite Chronic Illness</title>
		<link>http://aginginaction.com/2012/03/aging-well-despite-chronic-illness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Davy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physical health is an important aspect of successful aging. However, given the fact that almost three-fourths of older adults in the United States have two or more chronic conditions, it is inevitable that many need to find ways to live well in the face of chronic illness. What can research reveal about maintaining one’s well-being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dietary Resilience: Eat Well to Age Well</title>
		<link>http://aginginaction.com/2011/12/dietary-resilience-eat-well-to-age-well/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Davy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Resilience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[older adults]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adequate nutrition is crucial for healthy aging. Older adulthood often brings many social and health changes that can make it difficult to sustain a healthy diet. A recent article identified strategies used by community-dwelling older adults who demonstrate dietary resilience—maintaining healthy nutrition in the face of dietary challenges.
There are many changes associated with aging that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring Physical Resilience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Davy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Aging Research]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Resilience is the ability to adaptively respond to challenges and adverse events. There are many types of resilience—emotional resilience, for example, is one form of resilience important for managing stress—and many measures of resilience used by researchers to understand how individuals can actively respond to adversity. A form of resilience that is particularly relevant to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging and Older Adults&#8217; Reactions to Daily Stressors</title>
		<link>http://aginginaction.com/2011/06/aging-and-older-adults-reactions-to-daily-stressors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Stein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cognitive Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resilience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positive Aging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent study published in Psychology and Aging further supports that the aging process positively contributes to older adults’ ability to preserve their affective well-being. Explicitly, the study found that older adults didn’t display as strong a relationship between daily stressors and negative affect as compared to younger adults.
Interestingly, although the frequency of negative emotions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coping with Regret in Adulthood</title>
		<link>http://aginginaction.com/2011/05/coping-with-regret-in-adulthood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin revealed a new link between older adults’ ability to effectively cope with regrets and engaging in downward social comparisons (i.e., contrasting oneself with those of others who are worse off). Explicitly, the study examined the utility of downward social comparisons later in life in conjunction with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cumulative Lifetime Adversity and Resilience</title>
		<link>http://aginginaction.com/2011/03/cumulative-lifetime-adversity-and-resilience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Stein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology lends a fresh perspective to Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous quote, “That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.”
The authors of this article examined the relationship between cumulative lifetime adversity and human resilience. By analyzing a nationally representative sample of the population, the authors [...]]]></description>
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