Wendy Hulko

Dr. Wendy Hulko is a professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at Thompson Rivers University who conducts interdisciplinary research on aging, dementia, and health care with equity-denied groups, including Secwepemc Elders, racialized older adults, sexual and gender minorities, and rural residents. Having a background in long-term care nursing, hospital social work, and government policy, Wendy often works in partnership with health practitioners and decision-makers and uses creative and visual methods. She holds a BAHon in Sociology and Spanish (Trent), Master of Social Work (U of T), and PhD in Sociology and Social Policy (Stirling) and is affiliated with UBC’s Centre for Research on Personhood in Dementia, UCSF’s Emancipatory Sciences Lab and the Critical Dementia Studies Network. Wendy has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and edited books and is co-editor of the 2019 UBC Press book Indigenous peoples and dementia: New understandings of memory loss and memory care and co-author of the 2020 Routledge Press book Gerontological social work in action: Anti-oppressive practice with older adults, their families, and communities, to be revised for 2026.

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