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The Impact of Low Health Literacy in an Older HIV Patient

Andrea Jennings

Health literacy is an essential factor for health care providers to consider as older adults are attempting to manage complex health care regimes associated with HIV/AIDS. Health providers often fail to recognize low levels of health literacy among older adults. This case study illustrates how low health care literacy decreased the level of HIV knowledge, altered decision making skills, and decreased quality of life for an older adult with a diagnosis of HIV