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This qualitative study examined coping strategies among Israeli older adults abducted by Hamas and interpreted findings through gerontological lenses.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 older adults (mean age = 79.15; 12 women) approximately 1 year after release. Data were analyzed using a phenomenological approach to capture the lived experience of captivity.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>6 themes captured coping as a flexible configuration of practices. Participants described emotion regulation through shutdown, crying, and mental quieting. Agency was preserved through bodily self-care, time structuring, writing, and cognitive tasks. Internal occupation through music, games, and autobiographical imagination supported continuity. When held with others, participants sustained interpersonal bonds through conversation, humor, storytelling, imaginative travel, mutual care, and leadership. Meaning-making frameworks supported hope and sustained expectations of return. Coping was not uniformly adaptive: some responses reflected ambivalent meaning-making and pointed to limits of coping, including reframing deprivation as shared suffering, guilt, perceived abandonment, and eroded trust.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Findings extend the literature by showing that later-life coping under external constraint involves preserving identity, relying on meaningful bonds, and shifting toward internal control. Results highlight vulnerability and strength, suggesting coping is active, socially embedded, and shaped by age-related meanings, while also revealing moral strain and ruptures in trust. Specifically, life stories and internal cognitive resources serve as survival mechanisms, transforming passive endurance into active engagement. 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