Factors across life associated with remaining free from functional limitations despite lifelong exposure to socioeconomic adversity

Background There are substantial socioeconomic inequalities in functional limitations in old age. Resilience may offer new insights into these inequalities by identifying constellations of factors that protect some individuals from developing functional limitations despite socioeconomic adversity. Methods Data from 1973 participants in the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development (Great Britain), followed from birth...