Power of Attorney Webinar Program
Manage Care, Reduce Worry, and Gain Control of Decision-Making
This power of attorney webinar program will reduce your worry about burdening family members and give you the power to be independent and more in control of your life. Caregivers may feel exhausted and hopeless. Knowing the wishes of loved ones will help them worry less and feel more secure.
The aging adult, often the care receiver, may feel that managing medical and financial issues has become more challenging. If you are a single adult with no family, caregiving and managing your care can be more stressful. Gaining insights into how to plan for and manage the legal, financial, and health aspects of care situations can offer peace of mind and reduce stress.
Introduction to the Power of Attorney Webinar Program (Webinar 1)
All of the webinars for this program are hosted on Pamela’s YouTube channel. The links to watch the webinars are listed below and highlighted in pink text, as well as any documents mentioned during the programs.
Click on the red arrow below to watch the introductory video:
What You Should Know About Appointing a Power of Attorney
Testimonials for Pamela D. Wilson
“As an estate planning and elder law attorney, my role with clients is generally limited to preparing estate planning documents, including medical and financial powers of attorney. I feel a special responsibility to make sure my clients are well taken care of after my work is done, to make sure their families fully understand their responsibilities and are prepared for the difficult decisions they may face. I had total confidence in referring clients to Pamela to fill those important roles of agent, care manager, and advisor. Thanks to her breadth and depth of experience, Pamela was perfectly attuned to my clients’ needs. I was also often able to call on Pamela to guide me through some of the unique challenges faced by my elderly clients and their families.” L.E.
Read another testimonial for Pamela D Wilson by Spencer J Crona Esq.
The Three Parts of Caregiving: Medical, Legal, and Financial (Webinar 2)
Watch the second webinar in this series, which focuses on how being an agent or appointing an agent requires knowledge and application of medical, legal, and financial skills to advocate for loved ones effectively.
Click HERE to WATCH Webinar 2
Resource:
Unsure whether you need power of attorney or guardianship? Watch Pamela’s Webinar, How to Get Guardianship of a Parent, to learn more.
Caregiving Stress Can Result in Poor Decision-Making
Research confirms that the emotional and physical stress of caring for or managing health problems is significant and can last for years. Caregiving negatively affects health and well-being, even though many agree that it is a family responsibility. Stress-related worry about health diagnoses can weigh heavy on the mind and result in more health problems.
Stress affects the ability to think clearly and make good decisions. Caregiving stress and feelings of burnout result in difficulty, indecision, and delays in making decisions that can harm health and well-being. Spouses and adult children believe they can manage care decisions; however, mistakes can happen due to a lack of mental focus or distraction.
Individuals who need care experience mental stress and distractions. Worries about medical treatments or returning to the hospital can weigh heavily on the mind. Fears about the worsening of health conditions can prevent progress toward recovery. Identifying desires for care in legal documents can be a practical way to alleviate concerns that the right actions will be taken.
Whether you have been in a caregiving situation for some time or are new to it, situations become more complex with time. The number of decisions that must be made increases, and the importance and long-term impact of these decisions grow.
This online power of attorney webinar program for families offers an action plan to make better decisions, manage your care or the care of a loved one, and advocate with legal, financial, and healthcare systems.
If you are hesitant about the necessity to plan, this next webinar, number 10, offers insights about why waiting to plan can be risky. Watch it yourself or with loved ones.
Why is Planning Ahead for Power of Attorney and Creating a Living Will With Your Wishes Important? (Webinar 10)
Everyone thinks that they can wait for tomorrow to plan. No one gets sick today or is involved in an unexpected accident. There is a belief that these things happen only to other people.
David Drummond was no different from you or me. Watch his video. His heartfelt story may motivate you to plan for your wishes now instead of waiting.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH DAVID’S STORY Webinar 10
Note: Watching this video may elicit strong emotions.
Power of Attorney and Legal Decision Making (Webinar 3)
Adults continue to ask about the duties and responsibilities of being a power of attorney, what to do if family members disagree, and what types of decisions must be made. In this very detailed webinar, I’ll discuss all three topics.
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Power of Attorney Obligations and Risks for Family Members (Webinar 4)
Power of attorney obligations are legally binding and can pose complications for families who don’t get along. Parents can also choose adult children who prove to be irresponsible agents. Learn the pros and cons of accepting agent responsibility from caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson.
Resources to Download or Print:
National Guardianship Association Standards of Practice
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How to Talk to Your Family About Power of Attorney (Webinar 5)
Family caregivers are asking how to have the “Do you have your power of attorney documents discussion with aging parents?” and why it is important to have POA documents. Part of this depends on your relationship with your parents and how easily you can have this conversation. Learn how to talk to family about power of attorney in this webinar.
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Resources to Download or Print: State of New York Peter Falk Law
Power of Attorney Document Review Tips (Webinar 6)
I like to call this section “no surprises.” I discuss how to avoid common issues with power of attorney documents by discussing uncomfortable topics now instead of later so that the agent you choose is unaffected by family drama or disagreements. It’s important to ensure that information to deal with unexpected circumstances is in your documents so that your wishes are clearly stated.
Resources to Download or Print:
Digital Assets Law Michael Walker
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Power of Attorney Care Planning (Webinar 7)
Having documents completed is progress toward ensuring that your agent and loved ones understand what you want for care. Learn why creating a medical and financial care plan smooths the path to live life on your own terms.
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Resources to Download or Print:
Pamela’s Healthcare Master Care Plan Document
Pamela’s Financial Master Care Plan Document
Benefits Available to Veterans and Families
Example of a MOST (Medical Order for Scope of Treatment) Form
If you want more care planning resources, check out Pamela’s extensive program, Support Caring for Aging Parents.
Power of Attorney: Hiring and Working with a Lawyer (Webinar 8)
For many people, the thought of hiring a lawyer might be intimidating. Concerns may exist about how to find the right attorney or the cost of creating estate planning documents. In this webinar, learn about ways to manage the cost of creating simple or complicated estate plans and options to do it yourself if you’re not totally prepared to create your documents.
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Resources to Download or Print:
Example of a Sample Estate Planning Document Provided to Clients by a Law Firm
What to Do With Power of Attorney Documents Once You Have Them Finalized (Webinar 9)
Many individuals create estate planning documents and place them in a safety deposit box or file cabinet to collect dust. If your documents are not shared with the appropriate healthcare and financial organizations, your agent may struggle to step in when care is needed. Learn the steps to ensure the organizations who need your documents have them.
Click HERE to Watch Webinar 9
Still undecided? Below are more tips and support.
What Will It Take For You To Act?
If you are here, care caregiving has likely felt stressful for some time. Many aging adults and caregivers delay acting because they think situations will work out or solve themselves. If you are struggling, how long will you stay in this situation before deciding to change?
What actions must you take to protect your health and well-being? Do you want to take the chance that something will happen tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year that makes the current situation more challenging or stressful?
While we can’t predict the future, participating in this program will give you insights and an action plan to manage unexpected caregiving events, gain confidence in decision-making, and feel less stress and anxiety.
You may think that you can download a copy of a power of attorney on the Internet or get a copy from an attorney. You can. However, having a piece of paper is only the beginning of understanding the complexities of dealing with the legal, healthcare, and financial systems.
This program is less about the “piece of paper” you may already have sitting in a drawer or still need to create. This program helps you:
- Gain knowledge of information should be included in documents–that drafting attorneys may not have experienced
- How to create an action plan to manage your care or the care of a loved one
- Tips to make the best medical decisions
- Learn to advocate for care in a healthcare system that may want to withhold or control care and treatment. that goes against your or a loved one’s wishes
Caregiving is a Family Matter
Caregiving is a family matter but is a subject that is rarely discussed before an emergency happens. In Pamela’s program, Caregiving and Power of Attorney Secrets, she works with caregivers and aging adults to end worry, reduce doubt, and gain confidence about caregiving matters. The program also focuses on choosing the right power of attorney to help advocate for care in a healthcare system that may deny care and treatment to aging adults. Many adult children are looking for solutions to survive caregiving for aging parents.
Every Situation is Different
Because every situation is different, you can post questions in the comments section of the live webinar programs and Pamela will respond. Pamela’s 20+ years of experience helps caregivers and aging adults avoid many pitfalls, mistakes, and unknowns of caregiving and navigating the healthcare system.
Remaining Independent Can Be Difficult If You Don’t Want to Burden Family
Remaining independent can be difficult if you don’t have or want your family to help. By working with Pamela — who knows what happens in caregiving situations and understands what aging adults and caregivers go through — caregiving and family situations become less stressful. Caregiving is a life role that arises unexpectedly and throws unprepared families into chaos.
11 Reasons Why Pamela’s Power of Attorney Program Will Help You Manage Care and Make Better Decisions
Most of the time, talking about caregiving and power of attorney is an ” afterthought” after health issues have happened. By this time, loss of independence and more help may be a necessity instead of a choice. When life changes and you need care or become a caregiver, you want to be confident that you are making the right decisions and the right choices.
Here Are 11 Reasons Why Pamela’s Power of Attorney Program Will Help You Manage Care and Make Better Decisions:
1 The Unexpected Happens - Read More
Responding to health emergencies in crises results in family stress, worry, and anxiety. This program helps caregivers and aging adults have a caregiving plan and a backup plan to address the unexpected. There are also things to know to plan for and make end of life care decisions.
2 Reduce Worry About Being a Burden to Loved Ones - Read More
By having conversations about caregiving and power of attorney before emergencies happen, the worry about “who will care for me” is resolved. Aging parents wonder if their adult children will care for them. No one wants to be a burden. Saying that you don’t want to be a burden and not being a burden are two different things. Not being a burden does not happen without action and planning. By talking and planning about the desire to remain independent and in control, concerns about being a burden are lessened.
3 Spouses and Adult Children Are Relieved That a Plan Exists, But What if You Are a Solo Ager? - Read More
Adult children worry about when it’s time to get power of attorney for aging parents. This is especially true if there is a lack of understanding about the responsibilities of a power of attorney. Most people hear the words, power of attorney, but don’t know what power of attorney means.
While power of attorney is a document — a piece of paper that can be downloaded from the Internet or provided by an attorney — knowing the responsibilities of the person appointed is significant in managing care for a loved one.
Suppose you are a solo ager, meaning an adult who is divorced, widowed, never married, a married couple without children, or a person who does not have or trust family to be your caregiver at the time of need. In that case, this course is even more critical and time-sensitive for you. Finding a professional agent who will help you remain independent, in control, and able to manage your health when needed is a necessity, not an option.
4 Access Solutions to Common Caregiving Problems - Read More
When caregiving becomes necessary, families focus on day-to-day care and feel like they live in a pressure cooker because most lack a plan for long-term care. Pamela’s rare experience benefits caregivers and aging adults by providing practical and tested solutions to caregiving problems.
The stress of needing care or being a caregiver makes it challenging to focus on problem-solving. Live quickly becomes imbalanced. Pamela works with caregivers and aging adults to restore balance and reduce stress. Caregiving quickly becomes overwhelming, and burnout is experienced.
5 Creating a Medical Care Action Plan Puts You In Control of Future Care Needs - Read More
The quality of health indicates the quality of life with age. The healthcare system “treats” but fails to discuss the bigger picture of preventative measures to support positive aging. One example of this is the prevalence of high blood pressure and its relationship to circulatory issues in the body. Over the long term, high blood pressure and circulatory issues can result in a diagnosis of dementia and other health conditions.
Creating a medical action plan with Pamela helps caregivers and aging adults become more aware of potential issues and present-day actions that can be taken to support independence. Difficulties with activities of daily living are often an early warning sign that action must be taken to remain at home instead of moving to a nursing home or care facility.
6 Having a Person Act as Your Power of Attorney Gives You Power With the Healthcare System - Read More
Advocating, or standing up for our care needs, can be challenging, especially if you are not well-versed in working with the healthcare system. By going through the process of appointing a person to be your power of attorney, you have more power and leverage to work with healthcare providers.
In the Power of Attorney webinar program, Pamela shares her experiences as an agent under a medical and financial power of attorney to help you get the care you need. The healthcare system can be biased against providing care for older adults, especially those with specific diagnoses. With the information you’ll learn in this program you will have the confidence you ned to get the care you want for yourself or a loved one done.
7 Become More Aware of Costs of Care Giving You Choice About How and Where You Will Receive Care When Needed - Read More
Most people assume that Medicare pays for all care when we age and are shocked to learn that this is not the case. By becoming aware of costs of care as early as possible you can make choices about how and where you will receive care when needed. Pamela will work with you to understand what Medicare pays and doesn’t pay for so that you’re not surprised when a hospitalization or health emergency occurs. Detailed information about the costs of in-home caregivers, care communities, and nursing homes will be discussed in the program.
8 You'll Know What to Do When a Crises Happens - Read More
Pamela’s Caregiving and Power of Attorney Program takes you through common caregiving surprises so that rather than reacting in crises, you will already be aware of the things that might happen. Caregiving is part of life that many family members learn by a trial and error process. Mistakes and medical errors happen. By becoming more informed you will be calm when crises occur and aging adults and caregivers can more easily manage care.
9 Don't Take "No" or Accept Poor Care From the Healthcare System - Read More
Creating a power of attorney document, a living will, a M.O.S.T. form, or a do not resuscitate form can be overwhelming and confusing. Pamela works with you so that you are more informed about how the decisions you make in these documents will affect your care and family relationships. Medical errors happen that are not addressed in many power of attorney, living will, or M.O.S.T. forms. The general public isn’t aware of the problems that happen because these problems are not well publicized.
Because Pamela has been on the ground for 20+ years in hospital emergency rooms, nursing homes, care communities, and managing in-home care for clients, she knows what happens in client care situations. Pamela will help you avoid family disagreements and plan for potential healthcare issues so that you avoid unexpected situations and unnecessary stress.
10 Become More Aware of Decisions that Relate to End of Life Care Planning - Read More
Creating a power of attorney document, a living will, a M.O.S.T. form, or a do not resuscitate form can be overwhelming and confusing. Pamela works with you so that you are more informed about how the decisions you make in these documents will affect your care and family relationships. Medical errors happen that are not addressed in many power of attorney, living will, or M.O.S.T. forms. The general public isn’t aware of the problems that happen because these problems are not well publicized.
Because Pamela has been on the ground for 20+ years in hospital emergency rooms, nursing homes, care communities, and managing in-home care for clients, she knows what happens in client care situations. Pamela will help you avoid family disagreements and plan for potential healthcare issues so that you avoid unexpected situations and unnecessary stress.
11 The Risks of Delaying Talking about Power of Attorney - Read More
Appointing a power of attorney is a subject that many individuals and families postpone or are unaware of because needing or appointing a power of attorney seems like something that “isn’t for me.” Confusion exists over what power of attorney means. A power of attorney document is a piece of paper giving power to another person to help you.
You Can Download A Power of Attorney Off the Internet … But What Then?
The “implementation and use” of the document is the most important aspect. Sure, you can download a power of attorney from the Internet, but what then? Do you fully understand the responsibilities and the ramifications of appointing someone to help you? Many individuals do not have a good understanding of power of attorney and what it is or what it means.
A lack of understanding is why creating power of attorney documents or choosing a power of attorney is delayed. A lack of understanding about power of attorney is also why power of attorney abuse happens. Older adults are taken advantage of both medically and financially by persons they thought were honest-including family members.
When a Medical Emergency Happens, It’s Best to Have a Person Acting As Your Power of Attorney
When a medical emergency happens, help is needed. Having a power of attorney you trust is invaluable in protecting your wishes, choices, and desires about the care you want. Not having this document subjects you to having the healthcare system and others make decisions for you.
Work With Pamela As Your Trusted Advisor, Confidant, and Consultant
Pamela’s years of experience as a court-appointed guardian, medical and financial power of attorney, the personal representative of the estate, trustee, and care manager are unique and offer significant benefits to caregivers and the aging adults she works with through this and other programs. Pamela has been a trusted advisor, confidant, and consultant to caregivers and aging adults for over twenty years.
Becoming involved with the legal system is another hesitation. Power of attorney documents can be downloaded from the Internet or provided by an attorney. Having this piece of paper is important. Even more important is learning the responsibilities of your power of attorney and making sure that this person will do what you ask.
Get Your Questions Answered
Questions posted in the comments section on Pamela’s YouTube channel will be answered. Rather than being unprepared, the result of participating in this program will be that you will feel more confident, in control, and less likely to feel like a burden to your family.
And More . . .
Power of Attorney Responsibilities Relate to Caregiving Responsibilities
The roles and responsibilities of persons appointed as power of attorney who are also family caregivers are clearly outlined in the program. Pamela shares information about managing and monitoring daily care so that aging parents and loved ones can remain home and avoid moving to a nursing home.
Loved ones diagnosed with memory loss require special advocacy to receive better-than-average treatment and care. Learning to navigate the healthcare system can be a challenge.
Pamela’s Power of Attorney Webinar Program Is for You If:
- You are an adult ready to complete power of attorney documents, but you’re uncertain about what to do next and who to appoint.
- You want to remain independent and not be a burden to family or loved ones.
- You want to be in control of your life and your decisions.
- You feel alone and unprepared for needing care.
- Working with the healthcare system has been challenging, and your care needs are unmet.
- Looking for solutions to health problems makes you feel helpless or hopeless.
- You are a caregiver for an aging parent, spouse, or family member experiencing health issues. Power of attorney has been discussed but not finalized.
- You are a family member or friend appointed as power of attorney. You want to make sure you understand your responsibilities and all that is involved.
- You appointed a power of attorney and need to make a change.
- You want a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities of a power of attorney so that you can manage your care today. When help is needed, you want to direct and work with your power of attorney to ensure your wishes are honored.
Pamela Is The Person Caregivers and Aging Adults Have Trusted For More Than 20 Years to Help Solve Aging and Caregiving Issues and Manage Care
Pamela’s program will give you the confidence to understand the responsibilities listed in the power of attorney documents, choose the right power of attorney, manage caregiving situations, and be in control. You will become a better advocate for yourself and your loved ones by using the action plan that Pamela developed and used for her clients.
Pamela D. Wilson, MS, BS/BA, CG, CSA, is a national caregiving expert, advocate, and speaker. She has been a direct service provider in aging and older adults services and long-term care. In response to the need for accessible, accurate, reliable, and trustworthy information, Pamela offers online webinar programs to solve caregiving problems, advance healthcare literacy, and promote self-advocacy. She collaborates with professionals from and speaks to groups and organizations to raise awareness of family caregiving, aging, and healthcare issues.
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