Literacy of Older Adults in America : Results from the National Adult Literacy Survey

A national household survey of the literacy skills of adults in the U.S. Contents: literacy in the older adult pop'n. (comparing older and younger adults); literacy profiles for various subgroups of the older adult pop'n. (educ.; race/ethnicity; language use; sex; visual impairment; region); employment, civic participation, and economic status as they relate to literacy in the older adult pop'n. (retirement; voting; volunteer activity; annual household income); literacy practices and proficiencies in the older adult pop'n. (library use; newspaper and magazine read.; TV viewing).Brown, Helen is the author of 'Literacy of Older Adults in America : Results from the National Adult Literacy Survey', published 1996 under ISBN 9780160488962 and ISBN 0160488966.