Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol 11(2), Jun 2025, 161-180; doi:10.1037/tps0000445
Vulnerability to climate change-related events differs according to the age group, the level of exposure of the person affected, and the environment in which they live (rural or urban). Community resilience has recently been given great importance in coping with these impacts, with older people being one of the groups most exposed to the consequences of these events. The aim of this review was to identify the community resilience characteristics to disaster risk in old age and its differences between rural and urban contexts. A systematic review of the literature was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines and following protocol published in the International Prospective Register of Ongoing Systematic Reviews, selecting 34 empirical articles and systematic reviews published between 2013 and 2023 in English and Spanish from the Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCOhost, and SciELO databases. Research shows distinctive aspects between older people living in rural areas and those living in urban areas. They also identify factors that strengthen community resilience at institutional, community, resource, territorial, and prevention levels and factors that hinder it at health, contextual, community, sociospatial, and institutional levels. In addition, various coping strategies implemented in disaster risk contexts were observed. It is important to consider the differences between older people living in urban and rural areas, and it is also essential to recognize the complexity of social, individual, institutional, and territorial factors at developing community resilience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)