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Deborah I. Offenbacher, Constance H. Poster, Aging and the Baseline Code: An Alternative to the “Normless Elderly”, The Gerontologist, Volume 25, Issue 5, October 1985, Pages 526–531, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/25.5.526
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Abstract
A projective test administered to 120 older persons revealed a “baseline normative code” to which respondents held themselves and their contemporaries. Findings suggest that, in the absence of age-specific norms, the elderly do not become “normless” but develop their own normative prescriptions to fit their past socialization and present condition.
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© 1985 The Gerontological Society of America
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