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Current conceptualizations of resilience are ambiguous with neither consensus on the definition nor agreement on how resilience is measured and experienced across populations and subgroups. Moreover, guidance on how to further enhance understandings of resilience and expand resilience research and policy applied to vulnerable groups of aging persons is in its infancy. For example, existing definitions of resilience have overlooked the lived experiences of homeless older adults—individuals who have much to offer in terms of progressing notions on how some people “stand up” to adversity and “bounce back” to a state of physical and psychological homeostasis across the life course. To address this gap in the empirical literature, we use data from a community-engaged research project, which examined the health supports needed for individuals experiencing homelessness upon hospital discharge …