ACG Association Canadienne de Gérontologie / CAG Canadian Association on Gerontology

AD Alzheimer's Disease

ADAP Alzheimer's Disease-Associated Protein

ADEAR Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center

ADI Alzheimer's Disease International

ADL Activities of Daily Living

AGS American Geriatrics Society

ALZ Suisse Association Alzheimer Suisse

Alzheimer's society (an UK charity)

Amyloid plaque, senile plaque Plaque sénile

APP Amyloid Precursor Protein

AS Ageing and Society - Journals (UK, Cambridge)

ASEV Association pour le Soutien de l'Étude du Vieillissement (BE, Bruxelles)

ASGM Australian Society for Geriatric Medecine

BGS British Geriatrics Society

CAA Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

CIGS Centre International de Gérontologie Sociale (FR)

CJD Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

CPDG Centre Pluridisciplinaire de Gérontologie (FR)

DLB Dementia with Lewy Bodies (a protein)

EUGMS European Union Geriatric Medecine Society

FAF Familial Amyloidosis Finnish type

FAP-MVA Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy - Meningo-Vascular Amyloidosis

FBD Familial British Dementia

FDD Familial Danish Dementia

Formulaire MRS Guide pour la prescription rationnelle de médicaments chez les personnes agées (BE)

Geronto Institut de Gérontologie Sociale du Québec

Geronto Société Française de Gérontologie / Fondation nationale de gérontologie

HCHWA-D Hereditary Cerebral Hemorrhage with Amyloidosis - Deutch type

HCHWA-I Hereditary Cerebral Hemorrhage with Amyloidosis - Icelandic type

IADL Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

IAG International Association of Gerontology

IBA Institute for Biomedical Aging Research (Austrian academy of sciences)

IFA-FIV International Federation on Aging / Fédération Internationale du Vieillissement

MCJ Maladie de Creutzfeld Jakob

MID Multi-Infarct Dementia (vascular dementia)

MMSE Mini Mental State Examination

MMST Mini Mental State Test

NIA National Institute on Aging (USA)

nvCJD New-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (Same as nvMCJ)

nvMCJ Nouvelle variante de la Maladie de Creutzfeld Jacob (Idem nvCJD)

PDS Parkinson Dementia Syndrome / Syndrome de démence parkinsonienne - See PubMed PDS

PRION Proteinaceous Infectious Particle

PrP-CAA Prion Protein disease with Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

SBGG Société Belge de Gérontologie et de Gériatrie

SCPD Symptomes Comportementaux et Psychiatriques de la Démence (Site de l'unité de Neurologie Comportementale et Dégénérative de Montpellier)

SDAT Senile Dementia Alzheimer's Type

Senile kyphosis Cyphose sénile - See PubMed Senile kyphosis

SIOG International society of geriatric oncology

SR Senile Retinoschisis (giant cyst of the retina)

SSG - SGG Société Suisse de Gérontologie / Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Gerontologie / Swiss Society of Gerontology

SSVA Senile Seminal Vesicle Amyloidosis

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