Pamela D Wilson: Caregiving Expert, Advocate, & Speaker

PAMELA D WILSON is a caregiving expert, advocate, and speaker who offers subject matter expertise and support to family caregivers, professionals, and organizations. Since 1999, Pamela’s entrepreneurial spirit has inspired her to provide direct service to families, individuals, caregivers, clinical and social care providers, insurance professionals, elder law and estate planning attorneys, and financial and wealth planners.

Her subject matter expertise is in critical and post-acute care, long-term care, care management, care navigation, caregiver support, elder care, legal and financial appointments, and estate administration.

Pamela’s lifelong passion is working with individuals, groups, and organizations to increase awareness of the role of caregiving and broaden the definition to encompass lifelong health, health prevention, retirement planning, and well-being.

How to Connect With Pamela

Pamela connects with family and professional caregivers through digital programming, including The Caring Generation podcast and videos on her YouTube Channel that answer questions caregivers ask.

Additionally, information, education, and support are offered through The Caring Generation Library®, Pamela’s book, The Caregiving Trap: Solutions for Life’s Unexpected Changes, webinars, her Facebook online support group, speaking events, and consultations.

Pamela’s Path to Caregiving

Pamela knew from an early age that she possessed a love and passion for the elderly, yet it took personal and family losses for this realization to manifest. As a young adult, she experienced the losses of most of her immediate family, both parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles.

When these individuals were growing up, there was little focus or knowledge about health prevention. For Pamela, healthcare education and health prevention remain a top focus in the educational content she creates.

Some view Pamela’s early life losses as a tragedy. Pamela views the events as multiple defining moments of who she is today and the foundation for her ability to serve and educate.

With these losses and a lifetime of professional work in healthcare and caregiving, she relates and empathizes with others experiencing the struggles and blessings of the role of caregiver or experiencing health challenges.

Pamela’s Life Purpose

Pamela, seeking purpose in her life after the death of both parents, accepted a volunteer position with the Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital in Marina del Rey, California.

Through the Friendly Visitor program, she spent time each week with a homebound woman named Billie. This experience re-affirmed her interest in serving as an advocate for older adults.

As a result, Pamela took advantage of her early work experience in marketing and pursued additional education in social services and aging. Her certifications include a Certified Guardian, a Certified Senior Advisor, a certificate in Dementia Care from the Alzheimer’s Association, and a certificate in Nonprofit Leadership and Management.

She has served as a board member of various non-profit organizations and built a non-profit from the ground up in response to a need for grantees to meet the needs of older adults in Denver, Colorado.

Additionally, she served as the Colorado state policy liaison for the National Patient Advocate Foundation. She remains interested in public healthcare policy and legislation at the federal and state levels.

Pamela D Wilson Professional Life

After completing a master’s degree at Colorado State University, she focused her career on the healthcare industry. From 2000 to 2007, she served as the Agency Administrator and Partnership Development Officer for In-Home and Family Services, a company providing caregiver support in the homes of older adults. In this role, she used her operational skills to establish company processes and build the company’s reputation as a provider of eldercare services.

In 2007, she transitioned to The Care Navigator as the Director of Business Development and Marketing. From 2007 to 2018, she established the company as a leading provider of care management services for aging adults in the Denver, Colorado metro area.

Additionally, in this role, Pamela also served as a professional fiduciary in the roles of court-appointed guardian, medical power of attorney, financial power of attorney, personal representative of the estate, and trustee. She and her staff supported vulnerable and at-risk adults affected by cognitive, mental health, and substance use disorders in a legal capacity.

Her work at The Care Navigator opened many doors for education, advocacy, and speaking on a local, national, and global level. Support for the role of caregivers is a universal need throughout the world.

The Digital Age of Caregiving

After The Care Navigator, the next stage in Pamela’s career was to transform efforts from a local level to a digital global professional services provider of consulting, virtual programming, and education for businesses and consumers, focusing on the challenges and opportunities of caregiving.

Through this project, initiated in July 2018, Pamela seized the virtual advantage of the pandemic to fast-forward digital marketing strategies to create and deliver resources to support corporations, groups, caregivers, and older adults worldwide. In this role, she offered virtual consulting and educational services to corporations, groups, families, and individuals.

Following this path led Pamela to an opportunity in healthcare technology services with an early-stage startup, NinePatch, Inc., in October 2022. This position allowed Pamela to connect clinical and social care needs specific to social determinants of health. This 12-month effort allowed Pamela to establish a marketing presence for the company while supporting investor, marketing, and sales enablement efforts.

She continues to seek opportunities to support organizations in older adult and aging services and long-term care in various roles that include marketing, business development, and strategic planning. If you are an organization with am open role or need, please get in touch with Pamela.

Pamela welcomes invitations to speak to corporations, ERGs (employee resource groups), healthcare, financial, legal, community organizations, and consumers about caregiver self-care, healthcare advocacy, health prevention, and financial planning for a long and fulfilling life.

 

Read what clients say about Pamela’s passion for caregiving and long-term care support and services.