Mrs
Nikki
Gilbertson
Position
General Manager Client Services
Organisation / Affiliation
Dementia Australia
Nikki Gilbertson
With over 20 years’ Aged Care and Disability sector experience, Nikki has held diverse roles across community and organisational senior leadership positions. Nikki currently serves as a national General Manager - Client Services Dementia Australia, holding degrees within Social Welfare, and Masters Business Administration. Nikki's particular passion is for early intervention, community-based support enabling independence, wellbeing, and human rights approaches.
Nikki leads a skilled team of passionate and dedicated Dementia Specialists delivering high quality support to people impacted by dementia, within the disciplines of counselling, post diagnostic support, education and respite. Her work includes strategic development, governance, quality improvement and stakeholder engagement.
Kaylee Rudd
Kaylee is a PhD candidate in Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre. She has degrees in physiotherapy and clinical rehabilitation, practiced as physiotherapist in private and public health and managed her own private practice. Kaylee worked as a physiotherapist in community and aged care across Tasmania for several years, working with aged care residents with dementia. Her experience underlined the importance of detecting cognitive impairment early, prompting her to join the Wicking Centre to research dementia. Her current research aims to better understand how movement is associated with cognition and identify potential hand motor tests to help detect those at risk of developing cognitive impairment. Her previous research focused on gait and balance biomechanics and falls prevention strategies.
The main highlights of her PhD has been close regular collaboration with participants and team members of the ISLAND Clinic and ISLAND Project since the start of her PhD. Kaylee has also collaborated with several projects within Australia and internationally. One of her main collaborations has been with the ADNeT study investigating the impact of blood-based biomarkers on clinician’s diagnostic confidence, another was her work with the digital biomarkers team in the University of Leeds, UK.
With over 20 years’ Aged Care and Disability sector experience, Nikki has held diverse roles across community and organisational senior leadership positions. Nikki currently serves as a national General Manager - Client Services Dementia Australia, holding degrees within Social Welfare, and Masters Business Administration. Nikki's particular passion is for early intervention, community-based support enabling independence, wellbeing, and human rights approaches.
Nikki leads a skilled team of passionate and dedicated Dementia Specialists delivering high quality support to people impacted by dementia, within the disciplines of counselling, post diagnostic support, education and respite. Her work includes strategic development, governance, quality improvement and stakeholder engagement.
Kaylee Rudd
Kaylee is a PhD candidate in Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre. She has degrees in physiotherapy and clinical rehabilitation, practiced as physiotherapist in private and public health and managed her own private practice. Kaylee worked as a physiotherapist in community and aged care across Tasmania for several years, working with aged care residents with dementia. Her experience underlined the importance of detecting cognitive impairment early, prompting her to join the Wicking Centre to research dementia. Her current research aims to better understand how movement is associated with cognition and identify potential hand motor tests to help detect those at risk of developing cognitive impairment. Her previous research focused on gait and balance biomechanics and falls prevention strategies.
The main highlights of her PhD has been close regular collaboration with participants and team members of the ISLAND Clinic and ISLAND Project since the start of her PhD. Kaylee has also collaborated with several projects within Australia and internationally. One of her main collaborations has been with the ADNeT study investigating the impact of blood-based biomarkers on clinician’s diagnostic confidence, another was her work with the digital biomarkers team in the University of Leeds, UK.
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