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Wendy Hulko, PhD, MSW, BAHon (she/her/hers)

Professor
Thompson Rivers University
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

Wendy is a Social Work Professor at Thompson Rivers University, in Kamloops, BC, Canada who has worked with older adults for >30 years as a care aide, hospital social worker, government policy advisor, educator, and researcher. She is affiliated with UBC's Centre for Research on Personhood in Dementia, the Critical Dementia Studies Network, and UCSF's Emancipatory Sciences Lab. In her local area, Wendy is a board member of the Centre for Seniors Information and teaches courses at TRU on aging, research, groups, critical dementia studies, sexual orientation and gender expression, and social work field practice. As an activist-academic and settler accomplice, she conducts interdisciplinary research on aging, health care, and dementia with equity-denied groups, including Secwepemc Elders, racialized older adults, sexual and gender minorities, and rural residents, and often works in partnership with practitioners and decision-makers from the local health authority. Wendy has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and edited books and is co-editor of Indigenous peoples and dementia: New understandings of memory loss and memory care, published by UBC Press in 2019 and co-author of the 2020 Routledge Press book Gerontological social work in action: Anti-oppressive practice with older adults, their families, and communities. While on sabbatical in 2025, she will be working on the second edition of Gerontological Social Work in Action and building a community of practice.

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