| ACO | accountable care organization |
| AHEI | Alternate Healthy Eating Index |
| ASA24® | Automated Self-Administered 24-hour Dietary Assessment Tool |
| BLSA | Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging |
| BMI | body mass index |
| CBO | community-based organization |
| DHA | docosahexaenoic acid |
| DST | Dietary Screening Tool |
| FFQ | food frequency questionnaire |
| GLIM | Global Leadership Initiative in Malnutrition |
| GNRI | Geriatric Nutrition Risk Index |
| GRAS | Geisinger Rural Aging Study |
| MaNuEL | Malnutrition in the Elderly |
| MIND | Mediterranean-DASH intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay |
| MNA | Mini Nutritional Assessment® |
| MST | Malnutrition Screening Tool |
| MUST | Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool |
| NHANES | National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey |
| NHATS | National Health and Aging Trends Study |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| NRI | Nutritional Risk Index |
| NRS | Nutritional Risk Screening |
| NRS-2002 | Danish Nutritional Risk Screening-2002 |
| NUFFE | Nutritional Form for the Elderly |
| OAA | Older Americans Act |
| SCREEN | Seniors in the Community: Risk Evaluation for Eating and Nutrition |
| SGA | Subjective Global Assessment |
| SNAP | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program |
| SNAQ | Short Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire |
| UN | United Nations |
| WHO | World Health Organization |