Glossary of Terms

Version date: 8/29/08

The New York Academy of Medicine Social Work Leadership Institute Evidence-Based Database Glossary of Terms

The Glossary of key terminology is a controlled vocabulary of subject terms used to describe journal articles cited in the database.

For other terms pertinent to aging-related topics the user is referred to the AARP Thesaurus of Aging Terminology (Rimkis, A., & Melinchok, M. D. (eds.) (2005). Thesaurus of aging terminology (8th ed.). Washington, DC: AARP. http://www.aarp.org/research/ageline/thesaurus.html).

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