• What norms should I use for OASRs and OABCLs completed by people from societies that are not listed in Table 2-1?
• How should users decide whether to show cross-informant bar graphs to partners who have completed OASRs to describe themselves and OABCLs to describe their partner?
• Why aren’t multicultural norms available for the hand-scored OASR and OABCL profiles?
• Why aren’t there multicultural norm groups for the tobacco, alcohol, and drug items?
• How can data from the OASR and OABCL be coordinated for research purposes?
• Why are no Internalizing or Externalizing scales scored from the older adult forms?
• If two or more informants are available to complete the OABCL, should they collaborate in completing a single OABCL, or should they independently complete separate OABCLs?
• Why are the OASR and OABCL said to have 113 problem items when the item numbers on pages 2 and 3 go to 123?
• What if informants say they don’t know enough about an older adult to rate certain items?
• The OASR and OABCL instruct respondents to base ratings on the previous 2 months. What if a form is to be readministered over intervals of less than 2 months?
• How do the OASR and OABCL differ from the ASR and ABCL?