The EU should build its policies upon the resilience of older people
Number: 2
Year: 2023
Author(s): Apolline Parel
Three years after Covid-19 first hit Europe, it can be said that older people were among the groups most affected by the pandemic. At the same time, older people were in some ways more equipped to adapt to the reality of this social crisis – as they had lived through others before. This capacity to withstand and cope has recently been discussed as “resilience”. But what, exactly, is resilience? And how can older people’s resilience inform future policies?
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Keywords: AGE; resilience; older people; pandemic;