Joyce Weil
Biographic Data
| ID | 3914959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joyce Weil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joyce |
| FAMILY NAME | Weil |
| SIGNATURE | WEIL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Towson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1573-6534 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 825 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Enhancing engagement and retention of older adults as peer-educators
Retired older adults contribute to lifelong learning organizations, not only as learners but also as educators, sharing their knowledge and life experiences. Despite their involvement, little is known about the organizational practices that support their recruitment, satisfaction, and retention. This study explores perspectives of administrators from lifelong learning organizations in rapidly aging settings – Florida, USA (LLIs), and Universities…
Experiencing Retirement Through Teaching
As life expectancy rises globally, many older adults seek meaningful opportunities to remain active after retirement. One such role is that of the peer-educator, in which older adults contribute their knowledge and experience by teaching age-based peers within lifelong learning organizations. This qualitative, cross-cultural case study explores the experiences of 34 older adult peer-educators aged 61 to 84 in Porto (Portugal) and Florida (U.S.). …
Covid-19 and lifelong learning
Background The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a period of unprecedented uncertainty, profoundly affecting societies worldwide. Older adults often faced heightened risks of isolation and health complications. As research in the aftermath of the pandemic has sought to understand its multifaceted impacts, there remains a notable gap in examining older adults’ access to education, particularly within the Lifelong Learning Institutes (LLIs) or Universit…
Reconceptualizing Neighborhood and Community Third Places
Objectives Neighborhoods and communities can offer third places, places outside of older adults’ individual homes or workplaces, that are meaningful to them. Although literature may describe these places, seeing them as photos from the viewpoint of older adults is often absent. The goal is to understand the role and function of neighborhood and community sites as third places in the older adults’ lives, as portrayed through their own words and im…
Foregrounding the ageing self
Although ageing is personally relevant to many if not most gerontologists, a reflexive perspective is largely absent from gerontological scholarship. This paper employs duoethnography, a variant of autoethnography, to explore how experiences related to growing older have informed the authors' teaching and scholarship in the field of ageing. Duoethnography involves putting two autoethnographies into conversation, promoting dynamic self-understandi…
Intersectionality and the role of the lifecourse in older women’s lives
Is the place the thing
Relationship to Place for Older Adults in a New York City Neighborhood Undergoing Gentrification
While many older adults live in neighborhoods undergoing gentrification, research rarely explores their narratives about the gentrification process and their relationships with gentrifiers. This study uses discourse analysis of ethnographic data in Queens, NY, to identify repertoires in older adults’ narratives about the meaning of place and gentrification. Five distinct repertoires emerged: (1) gentrification brings a discussion of losses; (2) t…
Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology
Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology provides a review of methodological approaches and data-collection methods commonly used with older adults in real-life settings. It addresses the role of normative age-related sensory, cognitive, and functional changes, as well as the influence of generational cohort (age-period-cohort) upon each design. It discusses the role of older adults as true co-researchers; issues uniquely related to studie…
Race and the Lifecourse
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book examines the intersection of race and ethnic relations and the life course. The essays in the volume thus reflect varieties of qualitative and quantita
Comparisons Between Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Informal Caregivers
This study focuses on understanding similarities and differences between non-Hispanic White and Hispanic informal caregivers of those with Alzheimer's disease. Comparisons take place between caregivers reporting high levels of burden as indicated by the Zarit Burden Inventory. Data suggest similarities and differences between Hispanic ( n = 17) and non-Hispanic White ( n = 17) caregivers in this study in several areas. Hispanic caregivers indicat…
Acquisition of epistemic and deontic meaning of modals
Modal auxiliaries have an epistemic and deontic sense and range in strength, e.g. must propositions are stronger than may propositions. Children (ages 3; 0–6; 6) heard two contradictory modal propositions of varying strength. In the epistemic condition, the propositions concerned the location of a peanut. In the deontic condition, they were commands by two teachers about what room a puppet should go to. The child was to indicate which command sho…
Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology
Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology provides a review of methodological approaches and data-collection methods commonly used with older adults in real-life settings. It addresses the role of normative age-related sensory, cognitive, and functional changes, as well as the influence of generational cohort (age-period-cohort) upon each design. It discusses the role of older adults as true co-researchers; issues uniquely related to studie…
Relationship to Place for Older Adults in a New York City Neighborhood Undergoing Gentrification
While many older adults live in neighborhoods undergoing gentrification, research rarely explores their narratives about the gentrification process and their relationships with gentrifiers. This study uses discourse analysis of ethnographic data in Queens, NY, to identify repertoires in older adults’ narratives about the meaning of place and gentrification. Five distinct repertoires emerged: (1) gentrification brings a discussion of losses; (2) t…
Comparisons Between Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Informal Caregivers
This study focuses on understanding similarities and differences between non-Hispanic White and Hispanic informal caregivers of those with Alzheimer's disease. Comparisons take place between caregivers reporting high levels of burden as indicated by the Zarit Burden Inventory. Data suggest similarities and differences between Hispanic ( n = 17) and non-Hispanic White ( n = 17) caregivers in this study in several areas. Hispanic caregivers indicat…
Acquisition of epistemic and deontic meaning of modals
Modal auxiliaries have an epistemic and deontic sense and range in strength, e.g. must propositions are stronger than may propositions. Children (ages 3; 0–6; 6) heard two contradictory modal propositions of varying strength. In the epistemic condition, the propositions concerned the location of a peanut. In the deontic condition, they were commands by two teachers about what room a puppet should go to. The child was to indicate which command sho…
Comparisons Between Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Informal Caregivers
This study focuses on understanding similarities and differences between non-Hispanic White and Hispanic informal caregivers of those with Alzheimer's disease. Comparisons take place between caregivers reporting high levels of burden as indicated by the Zarit Burden Inventory. Data suggest similarities and differences between Hispanic ( n = 17) and non-Hispanic White ( n = 17) caregivers in this study in several areas. Hispanic caregivers indicat…
Race and the Lifecourse
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book examines the intersection of race and ethnic relations and the life course. The essays in the volume thus reflect varieties of qualitative and quantita
Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology
Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology provides a review of methodological approaches and data-collection methods commonly used with older adults in real-life settings. It addresses the role of normative age-related sensory, cognitive, and functional changes, as well as the influence of generational cohort (age-period-cohort) upon each design. It discusses the role of older adults as true co-researchers; issues uniquely related to studie…
Relationship to Place for Older Adults in a New York City Neighborhood Undergoing Gentrification
While many older adults live in neighborhoods undergoing gentrification, research rarely explores their narratives about the gentrification process and their relationships with gentrifiers. This study uses discourse analysis of ethnographic data in Queens, NY, to identify repertoires in older adults’ narratives about the meaning of place and gentrification. Five distinct repertoires emerged: (1) gentrification brings a discussion of losses; (2) t…
Is the place the thing
Intersectionality and the role of the lifecourse in older women’s lives
Foregrounding the ageing self
Although ageing is personally relevant to many if not most gerontologists, a reflexive perspective is largely absent from gerontological scholarship. This paper employs duoethnography, a variant of autoethnography, to explore how experiences related to growing older have informed the authors' teaching and scholarship in the field of ageing. Duoethnography involves putting two autoethnographies into conversation, promoting dynamic self-understandi…
Covid-19 and lifelong learning
Background The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a period of unprecedented uncertainty, profoundly affecting societies worldwide. Older adults often faced heightened risks of isolation and health complications. As research in the aftermath of the pandemic has sought to understand its multifaceted impacts, there remains a notable gap in examining older adults’ access to education, particularly within the Lifelong Learning Institutes (LLIs) or Universit…
Reconceptualizing Neighborhood and Community Third Places
Objectives Neighborhoods and communities can offer third places, places outside of older adults’ individual homes or workplaces, that are meaningful to them. Although literature may describe these places, seeing them as photos from the viewpoint of older adults is often absent. The goal is to understand the role and function of neighborhood and community sites as third places in the older adults’ lives, as portrayed through their own words and im…
Enhancing engagement and retention of older adults as peer-educators
Retired older adults contribute to lifelong learning organizations, not only as learners but also as educators, sharing their knowledge and life experiences. Despite their involvement, little is known about the organizational practices that support their recruitment, satisfaction, and retention. This study explores perspectives of administrators from lifelong learning organizations in rapidly aging settings – Florida, USA (LLIs), and Universities…
Experiencing Retirement Through Teaching
As life expectancy rises globally, many older adults seek meaningful opportunities to remain active after retirement. One such role is that of the peer-educator, in which older adults contribute their knowledge and experience by teaching age-based peers within lifelong learning organizations. This qualitative, cross-cultural case study explores the experiences of 34 older adult peer-educators aged 61 to 84 in Porto (Portugal) and Florida (U.S.). …
Psychology (6 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Technology Use by Older Adults (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)