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This article presents an easily applied screening instrument, the HRCA Vulnerability Index,involving 11 self-report items or proxy information concering functional deficits in personalcare, instrumental care, mobility, and mentation. Data from samples of community elderly inMassachusetts, clients of home care agencies in that state, and samples of residents incongregate housing facilities across the country are analyzed to explore the potentialusefulness of the instrument.
Morris et al. (Wed,) studied this question.