Education
PhD, Sociology, Demography Concentration, Fordham University, New York, NY, 2007
MPH, Population and Family Health, Maternal and Child Health, Columbia University,
New York, NY, 1995
BS, Health Science, Community Health Education, Hunter College, The City University
of New York, New York, NY, 1993
Credentialed Professional Gerontologist (CPG), National Association for Professional
Gerontologists. (September 21, 2016 - Present)
Certificate in Gerontology, Institute on Aging, School of Medicine, Temple University,
2008
Areas of Expertise
• Meaning and role of place for older adults
• Aging and the inequalities across the lifecourse
• Intersectionality and aging
• Interdisciplinary aging research
• Home and community-based services
• Applied and social research methods
Biography
Dr. WeiI is trained in quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods and emergent methodologies.
She is associate editor for the Journal of Women & Aging and an editorial board member
of the Gerontologist, Gerontology & Geriatrics Education and the Pedagogy in Health Promotion journals. Dr. Weil is an active member of the Gerontological Society of America
as a co-leader of the Qualitative Research Interest Group, a GSA Mentor, and she
holds the Gerontological Society of America's fellow status, FGSA.
Dr. Weil has worked in applied health research settings (as an Assistant Project Manager
position in a Department of Health Policy) and as a consultant for statistical and
international organizations (the American Statistical Association and the United Nations,
respectively). She has also been a remote learning consultant and curriculum manager
for a non-profit organization working with technology and older adults.
In addition to her body of peer-reviewed articles, she is the author of 4 books: the New Neighborhood Senior Center (2014), Rutgers University Press; Race and the Lifecourse (2014), Palgrave Macmillan; Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed
Methods (2017), Routledge; and Why Place Matters: Place and Place Attachment for Older Adults (2023), Routledge. She is working on revising her book, Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology, with a second edition planned for 2025.
Selected Publications
Articles:
Weil, J. (2024). Co-partnering in a virtual photovoice study design with older adults: A methodological
approach" The Gerontologist (64), 6, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnae021
Weil, J. & Karlin, N. (2023). Improving Home and Community-Based Services cost assessment
for underrepresented groups of older adults, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 24(9), P1263-1265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2023.07.017
Casanova, G., Weil, J., & Cerqueira, M.(2023). The evolution of Universities of the Third Age around the world:
A historical review. Gerontology and Geriatrics Education. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02701960.2023.2231375
Hostetler, A., & Weil, J. (2023). Foregrounding the aging self: A duoethnographic account of growing older as
a gerontologist. Ageing & Society. (2023), 1-20. doi:10.1017/S0144686X22001465
Karlin, N. & Weil, J. (2022): Need and potential use of telemedicine in two rural areas. Activities, Adaptation & Aging (2022), 1-13. doi:10.1080/01924788.2022.2160689
Weil, J., Karlin, N. J., & Monroe, K. (2022). Developing a conceptual model with policy implications
to better support healthcare providers working with older adults during a pandemic:
An interpretive descriptive qualitative study. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 42(5), 832–841.
Weil, J. (2022). Exploring dialogic analysis and thematic analysis of place conversations with
older adults, Working with Older People, 27 (3): 211-218. https://doi.org/10.1108/WWOP-07-2022-0026
Karlin, N. J., Weil, J., & Monroe, K. (2022). Experiences of service providers working with older adults during
the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Loss and Trauma: International Perspectives on Stress & Coping, 27(6), 495–515.
Weil, J., Kamber, T., Glazebrook, A., Giorgi, M., Ziegler, K. (2021). Digital Inclusion of
Older Adults during COVID-19: Lessons from a case study of Older Adults Technology
Services (OATS). Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 64(6), 643-655.
Weil, J. (2020). Pandemic place: Assessing domains of the person-place fit measure for older
adults. Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 33(4/5), 332–341.
Weil J. (2020). Developing the Person-Place Fit Measure for Older Adults: Broadening place
domains. The Gerontologist, 60(8), 548–558. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnz112
Weil, J. (2020). Is the place the thing?: The role of place in later life. Journal of Women and Aging, 32(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2019.1681890
Weil, J., Karlin, N., Lyu, Z. (2020). Mobile messenger Apps as data-collection method among
older adults: WeChat in a health-related survey in the People’s Republic of China.
SAGE Research Methods Cases, https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529707755
Weil, J. (2019). relationship to place for older adults in a New York City neighborhood undergoing
gentrification: a discourse analysis. City & Community (18) 4, 1267-1286.
Books:
Weil, J. (2025). Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed
Methods. Second Edition, New York: Routledge.
Weil, J. (2023). Why Place Matters: Place and Place Attachment for Older Adults. Routledge: A Taylor & Francis Group.
Weil, J. (2017). Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed
Methods. First Edition New York: Routledge.
Weil, J. (2014). In Mitra, D. and Weil, J. (Ed.), Race and the Lifecourse: Readings from the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Age. Palgrave.
Weil, J. (2014). The New Neighborhood Senior Center: Redefining Social and Service Roles for the Baby
Boom Generation. Rutgers University Press.
Teaching
- GERO 101: Introduction to Gerontology
- AHLT 445: Research Methods in Interprofessional Health Studies
- HLTH 615: Qualitative and Quantitative Principles
- PAST 601: Research Methods in Physician Assistant Studies
