Introducing the cumulative trivia concept The aim of this article is to introduce a concept postulated by Hockey in a personal communication to staff at the Queen's Nursing Institute, Scotland, called cumulative trivia (Hockey, 1999, cited in Balaam et al., 2001). The cumulative trivia hypothesis holds that some older people may experience a continual accumulation of small, individually minor events or difficulties that degrade their resilience until they 'cannot cope with another thing' (Hockey, 1999, cited in Balaam et al., 2001). Older people experience a number of small problems in
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