The text describes a study of older adults who experienced major negative changes to their health and living circumstances. As these people adjusted, they usually did so by:

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Those who were in this study, mostly individuals in their 70s and 80s, who were most successful in adapting managed to do so by maintaining and validating their identities. Despite adversity, they were able to say, "I am who I have always been." Even while they were being faced with very real shifts in their lives and in their physical abilities, they were able to do this by shifting from thinking about the present to thinking about the past.

The Text Describes a Study of Older Adults Who Experienced