<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs attention from an expert in Sociology . The specific problem is: a need to provide sociological evidence of clinical - level vulnerability . WikiProject Sociology may be able to help recruit an expert . (May 2013) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs attention from an expert in Sociology . The specific problem is: a need to provide sociological evidence of clinical - level vulnerability . WikiProject Sociology may be able to help recruit an expert . (May 2013) </Td> </Tr> <P> As defined in the psychology, sociology and social work fields, a vulnerable adult is any person who lacks the absolute most basic (as distinct from mid-level or typical level) human life skills . A vulnerable adult is unable, rather than unwilling, to properly learn or properly maintain these skills, and is usually completely without, and unable to obtain, any family, friends, acquaintances or other assistive persons in their lives to offer education or assistance in these areas (see: abandonment). To be classed as vulnerable, the adult's circumstances must be unable to be altered or improved by the adult's own individual actions without direct assistance from a more typical adult . The vulnerable adult must also be shown to be, on some significant level, a risk to him or her self if assistance is not provided . </P> <P> In the law of England and Wales a wide definition is applied to meet the standard of vulnerable adult . Section 59 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 states that: </P>

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