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Priscilla Camp will be presenting at an education program designed for professionals presented by the Institute on Aging entitled CAPACITY: WHAT IS IT? HOW DO WE ASSESS IT? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE LOSE IT?

Priscilla will co-lead the workshop Protect Your Clients, Protect Yourself: A Psychologist and Attorney’s Roadmap for Issues of Capacity, Decision-Making and Undue Influence in an afternoon session on September 16.

During this workshop, the presenters will explore the complex issues of diminished capacity, consent for care, evaluation of capacity and challenges of undue influence. Using case law, case studies and ethical regulations, they will introduce a road map to guide your actions from the onset of care, at difficult junctures of care management and when you suspect undue influence.

Priscilla Camp

PRISCILLA CAMP’S practice includes powers of attorney, probate, conservatorship, Medi-Cal eligibility for nursing home patients, capacity determinations, and trust administration.

She was Executive Director of Legal Assistance for Seniors and has served on the Boards of Legal Assistance for Seniors and Support Services for Seniors of Alameda County, as well as a number of other community organizations. She is a past President of Women Lawyers of Alameda County and a past Secretary of California Women Lawyers. A frequent speaker to Alzheimer Family Support Groups and other community groups throughout Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, she also lectures to attorneys, doctors and judges, and is a founding member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Her column, The Senior Partner, has appeared in The Bulletin of the Alameda County Bar Association since 1991. She has chaired the Alameda County Bar Association’s Community Service Committee and the Elder Law and Conservatorship/Guardianship Committees of the Association’s Probate and Estate Planning Section, chaired the State Bar’s Legal Services Trust Fund Commission in 1994 and has served as a Settlement Conference Judge Pro Tem in the Probate Department.

She received the State Bar President’s Pro Bono Award for District 3 in 1990 and the Wiley M. Manual Pro Bono Services Award in 1999. She is a contributing author of three books by Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB): California Elder Law, 1993-2002; California Durable Powers of Attorney, 1996-2005; and Capacity and Undue Influence, 1999-2006. She has been included in the Northern California Super Lawyers list the past four years and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 by Legal Assistance for Seniors.

A 1977 graduate of Golden Gate University School of Law, she has an MS in Educational Psychology from the University of Kansas and is currently a student at Church Divinity School of the Pacific Episcopal Seminary in Berkeley.

Priscilla retired from practice of the law as of the end of 2010.

Updated January 2011