The Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from academia, industry, government, foundations, and associations and representatives of patient and

This open access book aims to provide a comprehensive but practical overview of the knowledge required for the assessment and management of the older adult with

The field of health literacy has evolved from one focused on individuals to one that recognizes that health literacy is multidimensional. While communicating in

In 2004, the Institute of Medicine released Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, a report on the then-underappreciated challenge of enabling patien

Informed consent - the process of communication between a patient or research subject and a physician or researcher that results in the explicit agreement to un