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Health literacy refers to individuals’ ability to understand and manage their personal health care issues. Individuals with limited health literacy have less health knowledge, worse self‐management skills, and lower use of preventive services – especially those aged 65 years and older⁵ – and higher self‐reported health disparities associated with race/ethnicity and educational attainment.⁶ Older age has been strongly associated with having limited health literacy in studies that assessed health literacy as reading comprehension, reasoning, and numeracy skills.⁷ Increasingly, the ability to communicate and to use electronic media are becoming factors in health literacy.⁸