| Dear Colleagues,
The EuGMS SIG on Frailty and Resilience is glad to invite you to its next OPEN online meeting.
The meeting will take place on Wednesday 25th November 2026, 5 to 6pm CET.
You can join the meeting at this link:
EuGMS SIG on Frailty and Resilience Open Online Meeting | Join Meeting | Microsoft Teams
Using the Stressor-System-Resilience Resources-Outcome (SSRO) scaffold to advance physical resilience in geriatric medicine and research
Assist. Prof. Dr. René Melis
Dr. René Melis, a trained physician and epidemiologist, senior researcher and assistant professor in geriatric epidemiology in the department of Geriatrics of Radboudumc and former member of the steering committee of the EuGMS SIG on Frailty & Resilience, will talk to us about Resilience.
In a globalised world, ageing well depends on preserving resilience, the ability to resist, recover from, or adapt to health-related stressors, amid both context-specific disease burdens and shared global challenges such as pandemics. Yet in both research and clinical practice, its meaning and application remain inconsistently defined across health disciplines and confusion over the differences and overlap with frailty and intrinsic capacity exists. This hinders the development of knowledge and the implementation of resilience assessment and management in gerontology and geriatrics.
To address this gap, we recently developed a generic resilience framework – the SSRO framework. After the webinar:
- Participants will develop a deeper understanding of resilience, which can be applied in research and care using the generic SSRO framework, specifying four core elements for studying resilience: the Stressor, the System under study, the Resilience resources and mechanisms, and the Outcomes of interest.
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