Gunilla Nordberg is a registered nurse and received her Ph.D. in geriatric epidemiology from the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society at Karolinska Institutet in 2007. The title of her thesis was Formal and Informal Care in an Urban and Rural Elderly Population Who? When? What? 

Currently, she is working at the Swedish Dementia Center. For more information, please visit www.demenscentrum.se.

Wimo A, Nordberg G, Jansson W, Grafström M. Assessment of informal services to demented people with the RUD instrument. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2000; 15: 969-971.

Jansson W, Nordberg G, Grafström M. Patterns of elderly spousal caregiving in dementia care: an observational study. J Adv Nurs 2001; 34: 804-812.

Sassi F, McDaid D, Cavallo C, King D, Knapp M, Nordberg G, Sabbat J, Salvini-Porro G, von Strauss E, Winblad B, Wimo A. The burden of informal care for Alzheimer’s disease: carer perceptions from an empirical study in England, Italy and Sweden. Mental Health Research Review 2001; 8: 34-36.

Wimo A, von Strauss E, Nordberg G, Sassi F, Johansson L. Time spent in informal and formal care giving for persons with dementia in Sweden. Health Policy 2002; 61: 255-268.

Nordberg G, von Strauss E, Kåreholt I, Johansson I, Wimo A. The amount of informal and formal care among non-demented and demented elderly persons - results from a Swedish population-based study. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2005; 20: 862-871.

Wimo A, Nordberg G. Validity and reliability of assessments of time. Comparison of direct observations and estimates of time by the use of the resource utilization in dementia (RUD)-instrument. Arch Gerontol Geriatr; 2007; 44: 71-81.

Nordberg G, Wimo A, Jönsson L, Kåreholt I, Sjölund B-M, Lagergren M, von Strauss E. Time use and costs of institutionalised elderly persons with or without dementia. Results from the Nordanstig cohort in the Kungsholmen Project -a population based study in Sweden.
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2007; 22: 639-648.

Nordberg G. Formal and Informal Care in an Urban and a Rural Elderly Population Who? When? What? 2007. Stockholm: Karolinska Institutet. Doctoral thesis.

Sjölund BM, Nordberg G, Wimo A, von Strauss E. Morbidity and physical functioning in old age: differences according to living area. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2010; 58: 1855-62.

Wimo A, Sjölund BM, Sköldunger A, Johansson L, Nordberg G, von Strauss E. Incremental patterns in the amount of informal and formal care among non-demented and demented elderly persons: results from a 3-year follow-up population-based study. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2011; 26: 56-64.

Nordberg G, Sjölund BM, Wimo A, von Strauss E. Home care in relation to physical and mental functioning: comparison of an urban and rural elderly population. Manuscript.

Reports
Sonde, L, Nordberg G, Suvanto A-L, Wånell, S-E. För vems skull? Om tvång och skydd i demensvården. Rapport på uppdrag av Socialdepartementet som belyser frågor om tvångs- och skyddsåtgärder inom demensvården. Svenskt demenscentrum, 2010.