AARP | American Association of Retired Persons
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AT | Assistive technology |
BBSRC | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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BGS | British Geriatrics Society
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BME | Black and minority ethnic
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BSG | British Society of Gerontology
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BSRA | British Society for Research on Ageing
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CFAS | Cognitive Functions and Ageing Study
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CHD | Coronary heart disease
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CSA | Chief Scientific Adviser
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CT (scan) | Computerised axial tomography
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DA(OP) | Ministerial Sub-Committee on Older People (a sub-committee of the Cabinet Domestic Affairs Committee)
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DCMS | Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Defra | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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DfES | Department for Education and Skills
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DfT | Department for Transport
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DHHS | (United States) Department for Health and Human Services
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DLB | Dementia with Lewy Bodies
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DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid |
DoH | Department of Health |
DVLA | Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority
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DTI | Department of Trade and Industry
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DWP | Department for Work and Pensions
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ECG | Electrocardiogram |
ELSA | English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
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EPIC | European Prospective Investigation of Cancer. EPIC-Norfolk is the part of this study based at Cambridge University.
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EPSRC | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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EQUAL | Extending the Quality of Life, an EPSRC initiative
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ERA | Experimental Research on Ageing, a BBSRC initiative
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ESRC | Economic and Social Research Council
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EU | European Union (the Union of the three original European Communities, set up by the Maastricht Treaty, 1992)
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FFRAOP | Funders' Forum for Research on Ageing and Older People
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FP | Framework Programme for Research (of the European Union).
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GHS | British General Household Survey
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HLE | Healthy life expectancy
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HSQ | Health Statistics Quarterly, published by the Office for National Statistics
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HTA | Health Technology Assessment Programme (of the Department of Health)
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ICT | Information and communication technology
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LE | Life expectancy |
LLSI | Limiting long-standing illness
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MEC | Minority Elderly Care, a research project supported initiated by PRIAE and supported by the European Commission
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MISC 29 | A Cabinet committee, dissolved after May 2005, with the terms of reference "To oversee and drive forward policy on the ageing society"
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MRC | Medical Research Council
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MRI | Magnetic resonance imaging
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NCAR | National Collaboration on Ageing Research
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NCRI | National Cancer Research Institute
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NDA | New Dynamics of Ageing Programme
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NHS | National Health Service
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NIA | (United States) National Institute on Aging
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NICE | National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
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NIH | (United States) National Institutes of Health
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NSF | National Service Framework
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ODPM | Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
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OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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ONS | Office for National Statistics
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OST | Office of Science and Technology
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PRIAE | Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity
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PRP | Policy Research Programme (of the Department of Health)
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RAE | Research Assessment Exercise
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RCUK | Research Councils UK, a partnership of the seven UK research councils
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ROS | Reactive oxygen species
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SAGE | Science of Ageing, a BBSRC initiative
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SEU | Social Exclusion Unit (of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister)
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SHARE | Survey of Health and Retirement in Europe
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USO | Universal Service Obligation
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WHO | World Health Organization
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XCAR | Cross-Council Coordinating Committee on Ageing Research
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