Janet
M. Wilmoth
Professor of Sociology
Director, Gerontology Center
Associate Director, Center for Aging and Policy Studies
Bio
Janet Wilmoth is a Professor of Sociology, Director of the Gerontology Center, Associate Director of the Center for Aging and Policy Studies, and a Senior Research Associate in the Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University. Her research is motivated by a concern for well-being in later life. She takes an interdisciplinary conceptual approach that utilizes demographic methods of analysis. In particular, she uses secondary data and mostly longitudinal analysis to address later life health status, living arrangements, migration, and financial security. Her research has been published in the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Research on Aging, and The Gerontologist. Her current NIA funded research examines cohort differences in the impact of military service on later life health outcomes. She recently edited (with Ken Ferraro) Gerontology: Perspectives and Issues, 3rd edition and has a forthcoming edited volume (with Andrew London) entitled Life Course Perspectives on Military Service. She is also Associate Editor of Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, a flagship journal of the Gerontological Society of America.
