Expert Witness Caregiving, Home Care, Guardianship

Pamela D Wilson, MS, BS/BA, NCG, CSA, is a nationally recognized expert witness in caregiving, home care, care management, and guardianship*. As the owner of a non-medical in-home care agency and a care management-professional fiduciary agency, she served as a care manager, court-appointed guardian and conservator, medical power of attorney, financial power of attorney, personal representative, and trustee of the estate.

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Wilson consults throughout the United States with families managing and coordinating eldercare and with law firms as an expert witness. She also speaks and educates. Her expertise in these areas is grounded in twenty-five years of advising families and caregivers, providing direct services, educating, public speaking, and serving as an expert witness in complex situations for both plaintiffs and defendants.

Her professional experience, specifically as a fiduciary and care manager, is as a business owner. For more than 18 years, this included care coordination across clinical and social care settings, as well as the provision of direct care services.

As a care manager and a professional fiduciary, she hired, managed, and monitored standards of care for clients and wards living in or receiving services from nursing homes, memory care facilities, assisted living communities, adult day care, home health, non-medical home health, and personal home care organizations.

Her legal and fiduciary appointments were for adults diagnosed with dementia, Alzheimer’s, brain injuries, the elderly, and persons born with intellectual disabilities.

Because of her fiduciary responsibility and accountability for all aspects of a client or ward’s care, her experience crosses acute and post-acute care settings and situations specific to negligence, breach of duty, patient rights, and elder abuse, including financial exploitation, neglect, and self-neglect.

Her extensive experience in care management for older adults includes evaluating situations, creating and implementing care plans, navigating family relationships, healthcare, financial, and legal matters. She works with general and business law firms, as well as firms specializing in family law, estate planning, elder law, probate, and personal injury, representing both plaintiffs and defendants.

Expertise Witness Services Based on Experience

A tireless advocate for older adults and their families, she is an expert witness who provides expert witness consulting, expert witness report writing, and expert witness testimony related to caregiving, home care, care management, and the legal responsibilities of guardians, agents under power of attorney, and trustees.

While some experts’ experience results from educational or scholarly work, Ms. Wilson’s expert witness caregiving and related work are founded in practical application. Her legal and fiduciary appointments include Guardianship (58), Conservatorship (2), Medical POA (28), Financial POA (21), Trustee (4), Care Management and Assessments (more than 125), and Personal Representative of the Estate (9). She is well-versed in reviewing state statutes nationwide related to guardianship, conservatorship, and power of attorney. 

The number of appointments above is Colorado-based. For context, Colorado does not appoint a single professional to serve as guardian and conservator due to concerns about the risk of overreach and conflict of interest in managing health and financial matters. As a result, Ms. Wilson built her expertise as a guardian and accepted appointments as a financial power of attorney and trustee.

Many of these appointments resulted from the identification of cognitive diseases like dementia or Alzheimer’s, serious illnesses, disabilities diagnosed at birth, elder abuse, self-neglect, financial exploitation, or contact from individuals without trusted family members seeking an experienced and trustworthy fiduciary.

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Expert Witness Caregiving | Home Care | Guardianship

Ms. Wilson has unique experience as a CEO, company owner, administrator, care manager, and fiduciary. In addition to formal education and service on the board of many non-profit organizations, she is a nationally certified guardian and a certified senior advisor.

She is experienced in working with clinical, post-acute, home care, social care, legal, and financial organizations. As an expert witness in caregiving, she has worked with government organizations, including area agencies on aging, ombudsmen, health and human services, district attorney offices, adult protective services, police and fire departments, EMS, and advocacy organizations.

This network- and collaborative-based approach enhances her deep expertise in managing and coordinating health, financial, and legal care for older adults. During her career spanning over twenty-five years, Ms. Wilson’s commitment to upholding standards of care and duty to her clients and the organizations she serves has made her a trusted resource.

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Ms. Wilson is also an expert witness in conservatorship and guardianship.

Court Testimony, Case Reviews, and Report Writing

Her experience in court testimony, case reviews, and report writing is exemplary. Her background as a court-appointed guardian, medical and financial power of attorney, and trustee exposed her to complex situations, where she has successfully navigated client and family relationships and addressed issues of neglect and abuse by family members and others, in-home care agencies, board and care homes, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing communities.

As an expert witness in caregiving and related areas, Ms. Wilson’s experience is rare due to her hands-on experience as a professional fiduciary and company owner, managing and supervising client care, training employees, and developing company procedures and processes to adhere to standards and the duty of care.

Click HERE to read a testimonial about Ms. Wilson’s experience.

You can also visit Ms. Wilson’s YouTube channel, where she answers questions from family caregivers and professionals to show the breadth of her expertise. Her balanced approach to presenting both sides of the story is based on over 25 years of experience.

Case Examples

• Advocacy with medical professionals regarding access to and the provision of care
• Care plan implementation (or lack of) by family caregivers, employed in-home caregivers, and care community staff
• Care plan evaluation and development
• Employee caregivers and care community caregivers lack qualifications or training, and abuse and neglect
• Falls and safety
• Family caregiver neglect, undue influence, and isolation
• Home care agency supervision and oversight, including review of government and agency policies and procedures, supervisory requirements, hiring processes, interviews and background checks, employee training and oversight, care plan development and oversight, safety monitoring, etc.
• Abuse of the court process by family members
• Overreach of the management and staff of care agencies and care communities
• Reasonable care and concerns of neglect in memory care homes, assisted living communities, and nursing homes
• Medication management
• Moving individuals from a home setting to a care home, assisted living, memory care, or skilled nursing community
• Spousal caregiver neglect
• Supervised visitation of family members

Note*: Each state has different terminology for guardianship. Some states appoint a guardian (health) and a conservator (money). Other states have a guardian of the person and the estate or a conservator of the person and estate.

To learn more about Pamela D Wilson and the benefits of her expert witness services specific to expert witness caregiving, expert witness care management, expert witness guardianship, expert witness agent for medical power of attorney, expert witness agent for financial power of attorney, or expert witness trustee, watch this video.

Home Care Aide Standards, Qualifications, Training Agencies vs Registries | Caregiver Expert Witness

This video offers information about hiring home care aides through agencies versus registries. It’s also important to note that some state Medicaid programs allow individuals to hire personal care attendants or home care workers through agencies or indepdedently through a personal care services program. 

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To contact Pamela D Wilson, expert witness, complete the form above or call her at (303) 810-1816 to discuss your needs.

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