Appendix A: The Chief Public Health Officer's Report on The State of Public Health in Canada 2010 – List of acronyms

Appendix A: List of Acronyms

AD:

Assistive devices

ADL:

Activities of daily living

ADRD:

Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

ALIVE:

Active Living in Vulnerable Elders

AMD:

Age-related macular degeneration

BMI:

Body mass index

BNSS:

Bringing Nutrition Screening to Seniors

CAOT:

Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists

Candrive:

Canadian Driving Research Initiative for Vehicular Safety in the Elderly

CCHS:

Canadian Community Health Survey

CCSMH:

Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health

CDHA:

Canadian Dental Hygienists Association

CDI:

Clostridium difficle infection

CDKTN:

Canadian Dementia Knowledge Translation Network

CHMS:

Canadian Health Measures Survey

CIHR:

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

CMHC:

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

CPHO:

Chief Public Health Officer

CPP:

Canada Pension Plan

EI:

Employment Insurance

FEAI:

Federal Elder Abuse Initiative

FNIHCC:

First Nations and Inuit Home and Community Care

GAINS:

Guaranteed Annual Income System

GIS:

Guaranteed Income Supplement

HAI:

Healthcare-associated infections

HRSDC:

Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

iDAPT:

Intelligent Design for Adaptation, Participation and Technology

IHD:

Ischemic heart disease

LPSH:

Licensed private senior housing

MHCC:

Mental Health Commission of Canada

MRSA:

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

NACA:

National Advisory Council on Aging

NAHO:

National Aboriginal Health Organization

NHSP:

New Horizons for Seniors Program

NICE:

National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly

OAS:

Old Age Security

OECD:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

PHAC:

Public Health Agency of Canada

PIP:

Pharmaceutical Information Program

PRISMA:

Program of Research to Integrate Services for the Maintenance of Autonomy

QPP:

Quebec Pension Plan

RCMP:

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

RRSP:

Registered Retirement Savings Plan

SAYGO:

Steady As You Go

SCREEN:

Seniors in the Community Risk Evaluation for Eating and Nutrition

SES:

Socio-economic status

SIPA:

System of Integrated Care for Older Persons

SMART:

Seniors Maintaining Active Roles Together

SMHPL:

Seniors' mental health policy lens

SPA:

Spouse's Allowance

UN:

United Nations

UTA:

University of the Third Age

VIP:

Veterans Independence Program

VON:

Victorian Order of Nurses

VRE:

Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus

WHO:

World Health Organization