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Low or inadequate health literacy is a powerful barrier to good health. Following are websites that provide resources for those who wish to better understand and address health literacy.

European Union Health Literacy (http://healthliteracycentre.eu): Provides resources on recognising, measuring, and improving health literacy and includes a special web page for health literacy in older adults: http://healthliteracycentre.eu/knowledge‐base/#topics=health‐literacy‐defined‐and‐measured.

United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Literacy (https://www.cdc.gov/healthliteracy/index.html): Provides information, tools, and links on health literacy research, practice, and evaluation for public health topics and situations. Resources available on the website include ‘Understand Your Audience’ tools and resources on ‘Older Adults Communication’ to help improve communication with older adults and address health literacy barriers, as well as ‘Plain Language’ resources, the tools and resources on ‘Visual Communication‘, and ‘Testing Messages and Materials’ to ensure that health information is accurate, accessible and actionable.