An investigation of the relationship between health literacy and social communication skills in older adults

Communication Disorders Quarterly

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 112-119

  Hester, Eva Jackson ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult age; Functional communication; Language assessment; Language linguistics; Pragmatics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMPREHENSION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN ADULTS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT TEST OF FUNCTIONAL HEALTH LITERACY IN ADULTS; VOICE;

EID: 63849320935     PISSN: 15257401     EISSN: 15384837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525740108324040     Document Type: Article

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