Atrophy
The wasting away or decrease in size of body tissue, often due to lack of use or disease.
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- About
- Aging-Related Terms Glossary
- Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
- Active Aging
- Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
- Adult Care Home
- Adult Day Care
- Adult Protective Services (APS)
- Advance Directive
- Age-Friendly Health System (AFHS)
- Ageism
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- Aging in Place
- Aging Network
- Agnosia
- Agrammatism
- Akinetic Mutism
- Alzheimer’s Biomarker
- Amyloid
- Aphasia
- Apraxia
- Area Agency on Aging (AAA)
- Arthritis
- Arthritis
- Assisted Living Facility (ALF)
- Assistive Technology
- Associative Agnosia
- Ataxia
- Atrophy
- Balance and Vertigo
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
- Biodemography of Aging
- Blind vs Limited/Low Vision
- Block Grant
- Blue Zones
- Bone Mineral Density (BMD)
- Brain Plasticity
- BSE
- CAPABLE
- CARE Act
- Care Manager
- Care or Case Management
- Caregiver
- Caregivers Coaching Program (L3C)
- Case Manager
- Cellular Inclusion
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Central Nervous System
- Cerebellar Ataxia
- Cerebellar Signs
- Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
- Cerebrum
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
- Certified Residential Facility (CRF)
- Chore Service
- Chorea
- Chromosome
- Chromosome 17q21 (FTDP-17)
- Cluster Services
- Co-Insurance Payment
- Co-Pay
- Codon 129
- Cognitive Assessment Testing
- Cognitive Health
- Combined Form
- Community Based Services
- Companion
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
- Congregate Meals
- Conscious Aging/Conscious Eldering
- Conservator
- Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC)
- Continuum of Care
- Cortex
- Critical Access Hospital (CAH)
- CT (Computerized Tomography)
- Cultural Competency
- Custodial Care
- DC Office on Aging (DCOA)
- De-Cluttering Service
- Death Doula
- Delirium
- Dementia
- Dementia-Friendly Communities
- Diabetic Retinopathy
- Dimensions of Aging
- Disability
- Discharge Plan (D/C)
- DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)
- Do Not Resuscitate Order (DNR)
- Domiciliary Care
- Dual Eligibles
- Durable Medical Equipment
- Dysesthesia
- Dysphagia
- Dystonia
- Elder Abuse
- Elder Economic Security Standard Index (Elder Index)
- Elder Guardianship
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Emergency Response System (ERS)
- Encephalopathy
- Energy Assistance
- Episodic Memory
- EQUIPPED (Enhancing Quality of Provider Practices for Older Adults in the Emergency Department)
- Ethnogeriatrics
- Extra Help
- Extrapyramidal Signs
- Fall Risk Assessment
- Five Wishes
- Formulary
- Frailty
- Friendly Visitors and Telephone Reassurance
- Frontal Lobe
- Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)
- Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD)
- Gait
- Gene
- Geriatric Care Managers
- Geriatric Syndromes
- Geriatrician
- Geriatrics
- Gerontology
- Geropsychology
- Geroscience
- Gliosis
- Grandfamilies
- Gray Matter
- Green Houses/Green House Movement
- Group Home
- Guardian
- GUIDE Model
- GUIDE Model of Dementia Care
- Hallmarks of Aging
- Health Literacy
- Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
- Health Related Quality of Life
- Health-Care Proxy
- Healthspan
- Hearing Loss
- Home and Community-Based Waivers
- Home Care Provider
- Home Health Agency
- Home Health Aide (HHA’s)
- Home Health Care
- Home Modification
- Home-Delivered Meals
- Homebound
- Homemaker Service
- Hospice
- Housekeeping (Heavy)
- Housekeeping (Light)
- Human Growth Hormone
- Hyperreflexia
- Iatrogenesis
- Independent Living
- Independent Living Facility
- Intergenerational
- Irrevocable Burial Account
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
- Kinship Navigator Programs
- Lead Agency
- Legal Assistance
- Level of Care
- Life Course Perspective
- Life Expectancy
- Life Span
- Life-Long Learning
- Living Will
- Loneliness vs. Social Isolation
- Long Term Care (LTC) Facility
- Long Term Care (LTC) Insurance
- Long-Term Care
- Long-Term Care Ombudsman
- Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS)
- Longevity
- Longevity Gene
- Managed Care
- Meals-On-Wheels
- Meaningful Use
- Medicaid
- Medicaid Waiver Programs
- Medicare
- Medicare Savings Program (MSP)
- Medication Administration
- Medication Management
- Medication Reminders
- Medigap
- Microtubules
- Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Money Management
- MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
- Mutation
- Myoclonus
- National Family Caregiver Support Program
- Nationwide Health Information Network
- Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs)
- Needs Assessment
- Neurofibrillary Tangle
- Neuronal Inclusion
- Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE)
- Nursing Home
- NY Connects
- Observation Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Office of the National Coordinator (ONC)
- Older Americans Act
- Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)
- Ombudsman
- OpenNotes
- Osteopenia
- Osteoporosis
- Palliative Care (Sometimes called “comfort care”)
- Pastoral Counseling
- Pathology
- PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)
- Pedigree
- Person-Centered Care
- Personal Care
- Personal Care Assistant/Aide (PCA’s)
- Phonemic Paraphasias
- Physical Therapy
- Physician-Assisted Death
- Pick Bodies
- Pick’s Disease
- Polyvictimization
- Positive Aging
- Powers of Attorney (POA)
- Predatory Lending
- Presenile Degenerative Dementia
- Presenting Symptom
- Prion
- Prodromal Symptoms
- Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
- Prostate Cancer
- Provider
- Pulvinar Sign
- Pyramidal Signs
- QDWI (Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals)
- QI (Qualifying Individual)
- QMB (Qualified Medicare Beneficiary)
- Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY)
- Quality Indicator Survey (QIS) Process
- Quality of Care
- RAISE Family Caregivers Act
- Rapidly Progressive Dementia
- RE-AIM Framework
- Recertification
- Regenerative Medicine
- Rehabilitation (Physical)
- Rehabilitation Facility
- Rehabilitation Services
- Resilience
- Respite Care
- Reverse Mortgage
- Self-Determination
- Self-Neglect
- Semantic Memory
- Semantic Paraphasia
- Senior Centers
- Seven Pillars of Aging
- Shingles in Older Adults
- Skilled Care
- Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF, pronounced “sniff”)
- Skin Changes, Age-Related
- SLMB (Slimbee)
- Social Aging
- Social Construction of Aging
- Social Gerontology
- Social Portfolio
- Social Security (SSA)
- Social Security Disability Income (SSDI)
- Speech Language Therapy (SLP – Pronounced “slip”)
- Spend Down
- Stages of Caregiving
- State Health Insurance Information Counseling and Assistance Programs (SHIP)
- State Units on Aging (SUAs)
- Sundowning
- Supercentenarians/Centenarians
- Supplemental Poverty Level
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
- Support Groups
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- Tau
- Temporal Lobe
- The Two-Midnight rule
- Transfer (in terms of ADLs)
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