Professor Caroline Nicholson heads a research programme focussing on the interface between gerontological and end of life care. She is a HEE/NIHR Senior Clinical Academic Lecturer, working between the School of Health Sciences at Surrey University and St Christopher’s Hospice.

This unique partnership allows her to research and contribute to the development of palliative care for older people living and dying with advanced frailty and multiple morbidities.  She is particularly interested in the development of services which enhance the capabilities as well as attend to the vulnerabilities of people living and dying in late old age.  She is co End of Life Lead for the British Geriatrics Society.