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Nineteen community-dwelling older adults with MCI were recruited from three communities in Nanjing, China. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed using directed content analysis informed by the CSM. The study followed the COREQ checklist.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Seven themes were identified and mapped to the relevant CSM domains: (1) identity\u2014changes becoming visible through disruption in familiar activities; (2) timeline\u2014gradual changes absorbed into everyday adaptation; (3) cause\u2014aging as a normalizing explanation for changes in hand function; (4) consequences\u2014consequences emerging through functional participation and self-identity; (5) control and coping\u2014self-adjustment, support seeking, and limited pathways for action; (6) coherence\u2014hand\u2013cognition links interpreted through experiential knowledge; and (7) emotional representations\u2014normalization, loss, and determination. Together, these themes described variation in how participants recognized changes in hand function, understood their causes and consequences, related them to cognition, and responded emotionally and behaviorally.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Everyday activities both made subtle changes in hand function visible and gave them practical meaning. Aging provided a familiar causal explanation, but this explanation was not always integrated into a coherent understanding of the nature, possible cognitive relevance, and controllability of these changes. Accounts of concrete coping more often linked valued activities with feasible strategies and available support. 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