Question

Which of the following is not true about older adults

Question 10 options:

	Information given to patients (written or oral) should be at an eight grade level or lower
	compared to white older adults, older adults of racial and ethnic minority groups suffer disproportionate burden of disease, disability, and self-assessed health
	Older adults have lower health literacy rates compared to younger groups
	The proportion of older Hispanics is projected to increase substantially and rapidly over the next 40 years

Answer 1

1.NOT TRUE. Patient education material (both written and oral) should be lower than sixth grade or eight grade. It is prefarable if it includes more illustrations and pictures.

2.TRUE. Elders of racial and ethnic minority groups suffer disproportionate burden of disease, disablility and self assessed health compared to white elders

3.TRUE. Compared to younger people, older adults do have lower health literacy rate. Lower education along with lower income of older people do have an significant effect on their health literacy.

4.TRUE. Older hispanics proportion is projected to increase quickly in the next four decades. It is set to increse 7% to 8% in the next 40 years