What is a Caregiver Subject Matter Expert?

What is a caregiver subject matter expert?  A caregiving subject matter expert is an individual with bona fide and extensive experience and knowledge of caregiving, care management, eldercare, home care, and the health, legal, and financial aspects of care for older adults.

In addition to possessing wisdom and professional experience, Pamela D Wilson, a caregiver subject matter expert, has authentic life experience. She is the author of The Caregiving Trap: Solutions for Life’s Unexpected Changes (not ghostwritten content—but real experience after eleven rewrites), host of The Caring Generation podcast, and versatile public speaker on-site and virtually.

Wilson entertains and builds rapport with audiences through storytelling, blogging, social media, and videos responding to caregiver questions and concerns on her YouTube channel.

You can contact Pamela by completing the form at the bottom of this page. 

Why Caregiver Subject Matter Experts Are Rare

Because caregiving is a broad topic, caregiver subject matter experts are a rare find. The role of a caregiver touches many aspects of daily life and reaches into health, financial, and legal planning.

While the internet and research offer abundant information about being a caregiver, Wilson possesses knowledge, wisdom, and personal and business experience. Many self-proclaimed experts’ experience is limited to family experience, which, while valid, cannot replace professional experiences with hundreds or thousands of clients and their families.

True caregiver subject matter experts are more than copywriters or content marketers who research and write about caregiving. They have lived the experiences of being a caregiver and have 1:1 experience supporting caregivers and aging adults in a variety of professional care situations.

Why Pamela D Wilson is the Top Caregiver Subject Matter Expert

Wilson possesses family caregiving experience and professional experience in unique specialty areas that are valuable to caregiving audiences, groups, and corporations. She has worked in the caregiving and aging industries since 1999.

She is a three-time entrepreneur in in-home care, care management, and fiduciary services. As a caregiver subject matter expert, her experience includes:

• Care management, coordination, and oversight of care for the elderly and disabled
• Professional fiduciary (medical and financial)
• Care management
• Expert witness
• Senior care advocacy and education
• Physician and medical provider care coordination
• In-home care and home health, including Medicare and private pay
• Palliative care
• Hospice
• Care community placement and care management: independent living, assisted living, memory care
• Nursing home care, advocacy, and discharge planning
• Hospital care management and discharge planning
• Adult day programs and related services
• Financial planning and management: budgeting for care costs
• Adult protective services cases and interaction
• Ombudsman and family advocacy interactions
• Business owner, including education, program development, and supervision of in-home care and care management staff

Professional and Consumer Testimonials for Pamela D Wilson

Read what professionals have to say about Pamela D Wilson by clicking on these links

• Aaron R Eisenach LTCP, CLTC
• City of Aurora, Ronald Roulhac
• Spencer J Crona, JD
• Elisabeth Littleton, APRN, Owner
• Matt Klaess, Paradigm Group
• Client Testimonials

Benefits of Pamela D Wilson, MS, BS/BA, NCG, CSA, as a Caregiver Subject Matter Expert or Spokesperson

These are some of the benefits that Pamela D Wilson offers to companies who seek a caregiver subject matter or caregiver spokesperson partnership:

• Breaks down complex concepts into easy-to-understand information
• Establishes rapport with audiences through examples, humor, and storytelling
• Consummate public speaker, educator, and trainer
• Presents and responds to a wide variety of topics of interest by the media due to in-depth experience
• Poised, trustworthy, and credible
• Personal charisma, likable, positive reputation
• Efficient and effective
• Balanced insights into caregiver responsibilities, decision-making, and interactions with the healthcare system and healthcare providers
• Education and certifications to support being a caregiver subject matter expert

In addition to these skills, Pamela’s experience working with the elderly and family caregivers in day-to-day care placed her in unique situations of caregiver advocacy. Caregivers and aging adults can feel frustrated when they find themselves in situations for which they have little or no experience.

This lack of knowledge and access to an expert places caregivers in vulnerable positions where they worry about making the right decisions. Trust in the healthcare system and providers is a growing concern for many families swept up in care situations.

Because of her unique role as a legal decision-maker and care manager for clients, Wilson made decisions and supported family decision-making for elderly parents, spouses, grandparents, and others.

This unique experience adds to Pamela’s foundation as a knowledgeable caregiver subject matter expert with years of experience in the caregiving and aging realm.

Family caregivers and individuals can delay planning because of not knowing what to plan for or feeling ill-equipped to make difficult choices and decisions.

During her twenty-plus year career, Wilson’s responsibilities and decisions included:

• Advocating for client care in hospitals: admissions, legal decisions about care as a court-appointed guardian or medical power of attorney, and discharge planning to home or another setting
• Making end-of-life care decisions to withhold treatment as specified in a living will document
• Managing shift and 24 7 care situations for clients in their homes
• Moving clients from home into care communities
• Supervising care in all settings: home, community, nursing home, hospital
• Evaluating the pros and cons of medical treatments, medications, and daily care
• Establishing care partnerships between home and community-based providers
• Budgeting for costs of care and spending down for Medicaid applications
• Evaluating insurance programs, applying for Veterans and long-term care insurance benefits
• And more . . .

To contact Pamela to learn about her services, complete this form.