Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29577234›Full record

ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2018

Physical Resilience: Not Simply the Opposite of Frailty.

Heather E Whitson, Harvey J Cohen, Kenneth E Schmader, Miriam C Morey, George Kuchel, Cathleen S Colon-Emeric

Abstract readEditorial
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
80citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

80 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Better Mental Health and Fewer Depressive Symptoms Are Associated With Greater Psychological Resilience After Hip Fracture.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025
    Trial
  3. Review
  4. Observational
  5. Review
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Review
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Clinical predictors of resilience following total knee arthroplasty: the PRIME-KNEE study.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026
    Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Observational
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Provocative testing in community dwelling older adults: a path to identify physical resilience.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025
    Article
  19. Review
  20. Article

20 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Heather E WhitsonCenter for the Study of Aging and Human Development, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Harvey J CohenCenter for the Study of Aging and Human Development, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Kenneth E SchmaderCenter for the Study of Aging and Human Development, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Miriam C MoreyCenter for the Study of Aging and Human Development, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
George KuchelCenter on Aging, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut.
Cathleen S Colon-EmericCenter for the Study of Aging and Human Development, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Funding

Resource Core 3 - Metabolomics CoreP30AG028716 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Sarah B. Peskoe · 2006 to 2026
$24.6M
Advancing Geriatrics Infrastructure & Network Growth - Admin Supplement: Designing and Testing an Informatics Tool to Aid Prescribers in Reducing Anticholinergic Burden in Older AdultsR24AG045050 · NIA · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI GURWITZ, JERRY H · 2014 to 2017
$3.6M
Cognitive Changes and Brain Connectivity in Age-Related Macular DegenerationR01AG043438 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI WHITSON, HEATHER E. · 2013 to 2017
$2.1M
Physical Resiliencies: Indicators and Mechanisms in the Elderly CollaborativeUH2AG056925 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI COLON-EMERIC, CATHLEEN S, WHITSON, HEATHER E. · 2017 to 2018
$2.0M
Mentoring Intervention Development in Fall and Fracture PreventionK24AG049077 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI COLON-EMERIC, CATHLEEN S · 2015 to 2019
$361k
National Institute on Aging (NIA) P30AG028716National Institute on Aging (NIA) R01AG043438National Institute on Aging (NIA) R24AG045050National Institute on Aging (NIA) UH2AG056925NIA NIH HHS K24 AG049077NIA NIH HHS P30 AG028716NIA NIH HHS R01 AG043438NIA NIH HHS R24 AG045050NIA NIH HHS UH2 AG056925
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Adaptation, PhysiologicalPhysical Functional PerformanceResilience, PsychologicalAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleFrail ElderlyFrailtyHumansMale

Identifiers

PMID29577234
PMCPMC6157007

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.