| 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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