| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 83 pages) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The personal landscape -- The family and community landscape -- The health system landscape -- Reflecting on the day's presentations |
| Summary |
"Adults age 65 and older make up the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population. At the same time, the complexity of health care delivery continues to grow, creating challenges that are magnified for older adults, given that age is one of the highest correlates of low health literacy. This creates a shared obligation between health care and the health care team to use the principles, tools, and practices of health literacy so that patients and families of older adults can more easily navigate discussions related to chronic disease, polypharmacy, long-term care, palliative care, insurance complexities, the social determinants of health, and other factors that create challenges for older adults, particularly among underserved populations nationwide. To gain a better understanding of the health communication challenges among older adults and their professional and family caregivers and how those challenges affect the care older adults receive, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Health Literacy convened a 1-day public workshop featuring presentations and discussions that examined the effect of low health literacy on the health of older adults. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from resource home page (National Academies Press, viewed October 31, 2018) |
| Subject |
Health literacy -- United States -- Congresses
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Older people -- Medical care -- United States -- Congresses
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Health literacy.
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Older people.
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Health Literacy
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Aged
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elderly.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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Older people
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Health literacy
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Older people -- Medical care
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Health Literacy, issuing body.
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Health Literacy and Older Adults: Reshaping the Landscape (Workshop) (2018 : Washington, D.C.), author.
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| ISBN |
9780309479493 |
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0309479495 |
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9780309479479 |
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0309479479 |
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