I have never seen one to reference "Spouse (or husband or wife) with dementia", or "Spouse with Alzheimer's Disease". Am I just missing them?
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Thanks kindly! A few to add:

Mood disorders as per clinical psych/DSM:
HPD: Histrionic personality disorder
AsPD: Antisocial Personality Disorder

Legal terms:
PHI: Protected Health Information

Personal Representative: Defined by HIPAA as either someone with minimum of
Medical POA(aka Healthcare Proxy), or Guardianship....or for a dependent minor, their parent, or absent all of this, someone so named by a signed HIPAA release form, is someone the hospital not only CAN but WILL inform of everything happening with treatment.

Troll(alternative): Someone who posts with the intention of being provocative. This is often done by being offensive, but not necessarily. E.G. someone will play nice and dumb, but pretend like they are posting precisely what everyone on that forum is annoyed by more than anything. Can be done for the 'Lulz'(LOLs), or to drive traffic/clicks/promote a brand/political agenda etc.

computer stuff:

SE: Social Engineering(scamming, trolling, phishing, hacking without technical skills)

IP(address}: : Internet Protocol. IP address is the thing that identifies who you actually are when using the internet. Your Internet Service Provider keeps your name and address on record together with your IP. A VPN hides your IP address.

money:

EDTA: Electronic Funds Transfer Act - This act protects people from online scams and white collar crime
Romance Scam: Often used on the elderly. Usually a male foreign scammer pretends to be a young woman , getting an old man to fall in love, send money, give up CC(credit card) info and so on.. OR someone targets older women, often leveraging things like Praranormal, Religious, or "Help me, save me" stories to get the same.

FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - A bank is only a bank if they have FDIC insurance. Investment banks, especially for riskier investments usually do not have this insurance

TILA: Truth in Lending Act: This protects you from unethical lenders, including credit cards, collection agencies, and mortgage banks

RESPA(X): Similar to TILA but specifically for mortgages
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This is so so helpful to a new user of forum. I stumbled on it, how can it be more visible?
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And I've learnt that YB = younger brother ;-)
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Px=prescription
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Thanks A C !
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S x. Symptoms
H x. History

Thanks AC!
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