National Adult Literacy Database

This is the abstract for a research project, funded by the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL), aimed at testing the use of video and illustrations by health professionals when talking to seniors about their diet.

The project was carried out by researchers at Université Laval in Quebec.

The authors note that in Quebec, as in the rest of Canada, 80 percent of seniors rank among the two population groups with the lowest levels of literacy, suggesting that they need help to understand and take action with regard to their health.