• Luciana Sciumè, Giulia Angela Antonella Rebagliati, Paola Iannello, Anna Mottini, Antonietti Alessandro, Antonello Valerio Caserta, Valeria Gattoronchieri, and Lorenzo Panella.
• Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Istituto Ortopedico Gaetano Pini, Milan, Italy.
• Rehabil Nurs. 2018 Sep 1; 43 (5): 267-274.

PurposeThe aim of this investigation was to assess resilience within an elderly population during postacute rehabilitation for orthopedic surgery and to identify the role of resilience on rehabilitation outcomes by comparing hip fracture and elective patients (total knee and hip arthroplasty).DesignWe conducted a prospective study in an orthopedic rehabilitation department.MethodsOn admission and on discharge, 80 patients aged over 60 years underwent a multidimensional evaluation with the Resilience Scale, the Functional Independence Measure (FIM), the Multidimensional Prognostic Index, and the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF.FindingsHip-fractured patients had a lower level of resilience. High-resilient fracture patients achieved higher FIM scores. For elective patients, no differences on FIM score occurred for different resilience levels.Conclusions And Clinical RelevanceResilience plays a significant role in reaching optimal functional recovery in hip-fractured elderly people. Results suggest the introduction of early routine assessment of resilience in future outcome studies in rehabilitation.

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