b'GLOSSARYGLOSSARYADAMS: The Aging, Demographics, and MemoryBridge Employment: Refers to any paid workEEA: Early eligibility age is the earliest age to Study (ADAMS), a supplement to the Health andafter an individual retires or starts receiving aclaim Social Security retirement benefit. If ben-Retirement Study, was funded by theNationalpension. efits are claimed before the full retirement age, Institute on Agingwith the specific aim of con- they are reduced a fraction of a percent for each ducting a population-based study of dementia.CAMS: The Consumption and Activities Mailmonth before the full retirement age.Survey is a paper-and-pencil survey that is col-AD: Alzheimers disease is a chronicneurode- lected biennially in odd-numbered years from theFEM: The Future Elderly Model is a demographic generativedisease that is the leading cause ofcore HRS survey. One of its primary objectivesand economic simulation model designed to dementia. is to measure total household spending over thepredict the future costs and health status of the previous 12 months.elderly and explore what current trends or future ADLs: Activities of daily living are routineshifts imply for policy. activities that people tend do every day withoutCIND: Cognitive impairment not dementia needing assistance. There are six basicADLs:describes individuals whose cognitive function- FRA: Full retirement age is the age at which eating, bathing, dressing, toileting, transferringing falls below normal but who do not yet havebeneficiaries can claim their full Social Security (walking) and continence. dementia. An important goal within CIND is toretirement benefits. Traditionally, thefullben-identify subgroups that will likely progress toefitagewas 65, and earlyretirementbenefits AIME: Average indexed monthly earnings areAlzheimers disease.were first available atage62, with a permanent used by Social Security system to calculate thereduction to 80 percent of thefullbenefit Primary Insurance Amount (PIA), which deter- DB: Defined benefit pension insurance is anamount. Currently, thefullbenefitageis 66 for mines the value of retirement benefits. employer-provided pension that is determinedpeople born in 1943-1954, rising to 67 for those by a formula based on the employees earningsborn in 1960 or later.APOE: Apolipoprotein E plays an importanthistory and tenure of service and age, rather than role in transporting cholesterol in and out of thedepending directly on individual investmentIADLs: Instrumental activities of daily living central nervous system. Having theAPOEallelereturns.are not necessary for fundamental functioning, increases the risk of AD possibly related tobut they let an individual live independently in a improper functioning of this protein. DC: Defined contribution pension insurance is acommunity. They include things like housework, type of pension plan in which a certain amountpreparing meals, taking medications as pre-BMI: Body mass index is a value derived fromor percentage of money is saved in a 401(k)-typescribed, and managing money.themass(weight) and height of an individual.account. The defined-contribution plan places BMI is defined asweightdivided by thesquareofrestrictions that control when and how employees height. It is usually reported inunitsof kg/m2,withdraw these funds without penalties.for mass inkilogramsand height inmeters.103'