As an elderly care expert witness, Pamela D. Wilson has extensive expertise in caregiving and care planning in healthcare, legal, and financial matters. The benefits of Wilson’s experience for law firms, litigators, family members, and elderly adults include experience as a business owner and a professional fiduciary with legal, healthcare, and financial responsibility.
Wilson believes that all older adults deserve dignified and appropriate care. The foundation of Wilson’s elderly care expert witness includes a professional fiduciary case count of:
- Guardianship (58)
- Conservatorship (2)*
- Medical durable power of attorney (28)
- Financial durable power of attorney (21)
- Trustee (4)
- Personal representative of the estate (9)
- Representative payee (3)
- Over 125 formal care management assessments and managed cases
*Colorado statute, leading the way for other states, does not permit professional fiduciaries to serve as both guardian and conservator, because of the potential of a conflict of interest. Wilson no longer serves in these roles. Download a copy of her
C.V. to learn more.
What is an Elderly Care Expert Witness?
An elderly care expert witness possesses extensive experience in care planning, care management, and the legal responsibilities associated with caring for the elderly, encompassing health, legal, and financial matters. These include:
- Care in the family home by spouses, adult children, or others
- Hiring, managing, and training in-home caregivers
- Coordinating care: home health care, physician appointments, and medical care across hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, home health care agencies, palliative care, hospice, and other post-acute care services
- Ensuring that Standards of Care and Duty of Care are provided by privately hired staff, in-home care agencies, day care centers, assisted living, memory care communities, and nursing homes
An elder care witness can help family caregivers confirm that their actions to care for a spouse, elderly parent, or another family member are appropriate and address all necessary areas of concern. This can be helpful when family members question the quality of care provided for a loved one.
In other situations where APS (Adult Protective Services), the police, or the legal system are involved, an expert witness can provide guidance and support to review and develop a care plan to address potential concerns of elder abuse or neglect. She also reports and testifies in situations involving contested guardianship or conservatorship proceedings or alleged abuse by a power of attorney agent.
Additionally, Wilson supports families who question the care plans or standards of care of providers whose staff may have harmed a loved one by failing to fulfill standards or duty of care. She also supports organizations whose standards and duty of care are questioned.
The Importance of Care Planning for Elderly Adults
While the needs of elderly adults may initially be related to health problems that raise questions about their ability to remain living at home, other unmet needs likely exist. An older adult may have undiagnosed dementia, leading to care refusals or self-care neglect. Additionally, few families recognize the importance of creating a care plan to address health, financial, and legal matters, ensuring a process is in place to manage unexpected issues.
It is common for family caregivers, including spouses and adult children, to become overwhelmed by the extent of care required for a husband, wife, elderly parent, or grandparent. Some adult children make caregiving commitments, unaware that their elderly parents may live for another ten or twenty years.
The result can be an unintentional neglect of care, an escalation of family disagreements about care, and the inability of an elderly parent with dementia to care for themselves. Investigating, hiring, and supervising appropriate care services can be challenging for family caregivers due to time constraints, caregiver exhaustion, and a lack of education.
These facts underscore the importance of early and ongoing family discussions across all members of all ages about care planning and the subjects of caregiving, health, finances, and legal matters.
Standards of Care and Duty of Care
For care and health care providers, standards of care serve as a benchmark to guide obligations to care for elderly adults living in their homes, in care communities, and others receiving care from the healthcare system. When standards of care are not met, negligence can result in harm to the elderly.
All workers serving the elderly, regardless of their level of training and education, have a duty to meet and follow the standards of care identified by their employers, as well as state and federal statutes and regulations.
When organizations are not thorough in their hiring, training, and supervising processes, employees may fail to follow established procedures or cross professional boundaries, resulting in harmful actions.
Pamela D Wilson, Elder Care Expert Witness
Elderly care expert witness Pamela D. Wilson offers opinions, reports, and testifies on care plans, standards of care, and the duty of care for the elderly. She supports plaintiffs and defendants.
Videos on Wilson’s YouTube Channel discuss expert witness services related to elder care, dementia care, care management,
guardianship or conservatorship, home care agencies, and other related topics.
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