Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics and Correlations among Age, Education (Edu), Processing Capacity (PC), Health Knowledge (HK), Health Literacy (HL), and Memory for Medication Purpose (MP)

	Mean (SD)	Edu	PC	HK	HL	MP
Age	63.61 (10.13)	- .0.03	- 0.34**	- 0.11**	0.04	- 0.20**
Education	4.93 (0.94)		0.25**	0.18**	0.44**	0.14**
Letter comparison	17.17 (4.96)
Pattern comparison	29.07 (7.79)
PC				0.25**	0.31**	0.24**
HK (max = 24)	18.66 (2.92)				0.25**	0.26**
HL (max =66)	61.19 (8.87)					0.20**
MP	0.87 (0.21)

**p < .01