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Common Abbreviations

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Common Abbreviations

People

  • ADLO = Loved One with Alzheimer's disease
  • BF = Boyfriend
  • BIL = Brother-in-Law
  • DD = Dear/Darling Daughter
  • DH = Dear Husband
  • DS = Dear/Darling Son
  • DW = Dear/Darling Wife
  • FIL = Father-in-Law
  • GF = Girlfriend
  • GLO = Greetings to Loved Ones
  • GMIL = Grandmother-in-Law
  • GFIL = Grandfather-in-Law
  • LO = Loved One
  • MIL = Mother-in-Law
  • NOK = Next of Kin
  • OH = Other Half
  • PWD/PLWD = Person with Dementia/Person Living with dementia\
  • SIBs = Brothers and Sisters or Siblings
  • SIL = Sister-in-Law
  • SO = Significant Other

Popular Online Acronyms

  • AKA = Also known as
  • BBL = Be back later
  • BTW = By the way
  • BRB = Be right back
  • IMCO = In my considered opinion
  • IMHO = In my humble/honest opinion
  • IOW = In other words
  • J/K = Just kidding
  • LOL = Laugh out loud
  • OMG = Oh my gosh!
  • OT = Off topic
  • TIA = Thanks in advance
  • TTT = “to the top”
  • TTYL = Talk to you later
  • WDYT = What do you think

Types of Dementia

  • AD or ALZ = Alzheimer's disease
  • ADRD = Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
  • EO or EOAD = Early onset Alzheimer's disease (diagnosis before the age of 65)
  • FTD = Frontotemporal dementia
  • FTLD = Frontotemporal lobar degeneration
  • LBD or LB = Lewy Body disease or dementia
  • MD = Mixed dementia
  • VD = Vascular disease or dementia
  • TBI = Traumatic brain injury
  • CTE = Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
  • NPH = Normal pressure hydrocephalus
  • MCI = Mild Cognitive Impairment
  • YOAD = Younger onset Alzheimer’s disease (another way to say diagnosis before age 65)

Stages of Dementia

  • ES = Early stage of Alzheimer's disease (in the beginning of the disease progression)
  • LS = Late Stage of Alzheimer's
  • MS = Middle Stage of Alzheimer's

Care Places

  • AL or ALF = Assisted living facility
  • ADC = Adult day care
  • CCC / CCRC / LPC = Continuing care community, continuing care retirement community, or life plan community (a facility which offers independent living, assisted living and nursing home residences)
  • LTC / LTSC = Long-term care / skilled care
  • MC = Memory care
  • NH = Nursing home
  • RCF = Residential care facility (group home, personal care home, adult family home)
  • SNF = Skilled nursing facility/nursing home

Medical

  • CNA = Certified nursing assistant
  • Delusion = false ideas that are firmly believed in spite of contradictory proof
  • DNR = Do not resuscitate
  • DON = Director of nursing
  • DVT = Deep vein thrombosis
  • DX = Diagnosis
  • ER = Emergency room
  • G-Tube = Gastrostomy tube
  • Hallucination = false perceptions of objects or events involving the senses; seeing, hearing or tasting things that are not there
  • LPN = Licensed practical nurse
  • LVN = Licensed vocational nurse
  • MMSE = Mini mental state exam
  • OT = Occupational therapy
  • PCP = Primary care physician
  • PEG Tube = percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube (feeding tube inserted direct into the abdomen)
  • PT = Physical therapy
  • RN = Registered nurse
  • SLT – Speech/language therapy
  • TIA = Transient ischemic attack (mini-stroke)
  • UTI = Urinary tract infection

Legal

  • APS = Adult protective services
  • CELA = Certified elder law attorney
  • DPOA = Durable power of attorney
  • HIPAA = Law Health Insurance Provider Accountability Act
  • LTCO = Long term care ombudsman
  • LW = Living will
  • NAELA = National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
  • POA = Power of attorney


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Commonly Used Abbreviations


DH = Dear Husband
DW= Dear Wife, Darling Wife
LO = Loved One
ES = Early Stage
EO = Early Onset
FTD = Frontotemporal Dementia
VD = Vascular Dementia
MC = Memory Care
AL = Assisted Living
POA = Power of Attorney
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