Lower Literacy Means Poor Health And Poor Health Care Access For Older People
Mon, 29 May 2006 01:00 PM EST
... People aged 70 years and older with limited literacy skills are one and one half to two times as likely to have poor health and poor health care access as people with adequate or higher reading ability, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco. [click link for full article] ...
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