AAG position paper: Promoting older people's resilience and post-traumatic growth following disasters, trauma and adversity

This position paper considers the topics of disasters, resilience, post-traumatic stress disorder, cumulative trauma, post-traumatic growth and gerotranscendence.

This paper complements the work of AAG’s 2021 Glenda Powell Travelling Fellow, Dr Paul Arbon, and his work on the hot topic of 2021 disaster resilience through community capacity and organisational capacity building.