This U.S. Department of Education, Division of Adult Education and Literacy (DAEL) symposium was designed to engage health and adult education practitioners in dialogues regarding strategies to help older adults with limited basic skills and their families to communicate more effectively with their health care providers. This volume summarizes the symposium's presentations and contains relevant accompanying materials. Section 1 is an introduction. Section 2 contains DAEL's letter introducing the symposium, a summary of the opening remarks, and the symposium agenda. Section 3 includes summaries of each presentation, and Section 4 summarizes a plenary discussion of key issues. Appendices include presenters' biographies, a complete list of participants, lists of members of committees that helped plan the symposium, and slides to complement the summaries in section 3. (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education) (KFT)