2500 Hinkle Dr #56, Denton, Texas 76201 United States
About ME
AIM Aging Issues Mediation and LTC Ethics Consultants are divisions of E-Senior Services, LLC.
I'm DeLila Bergan, JD, MA, HEC-C, an elder mediator and healthcare ethics consultant.
People often ask how I became a mediator. After working in a hospital for some time, I attended law school at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. I then practiced law for many years, initially as a litigator, but ultimately as an elder law attorney, a better fit for me with my health care background. The difficult questions faced by my older clients and their families led me to return to school to obtain a Master's degree in bioethics and health care policy from Loyola University Chicago. I needed a better framework in which to consider the ethical questions raised by aging in our society and my training at Loyola provided that. After I retired from the active practice of law, I trained as a mediator and now use elder mediation and ethics consultations to help older adults, their families and senior care professionals work through complex, and sometimes contentious, issues.
I currently have the privilege of serving as an adjunct professor in the graduate Conflict Management program at Abilene Christian University. For many years, I also had the honor of being an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School where I helped medical students learn to identify and analyze ethical issues in patient care.
I'm actively involved in the Association for Conflict Resolution and serve as the Co-Chair of its Elder Mediation section.
When I need a break from my professional life, you will find me playing with my dog or encouraging flowers to bloom in my garden.
If you have questions about any of my services, please give me a call at 972-809-0247. I don't have a big social media presence. The conversations had during mediations and ethics consultations are confidential. It is my duty to protect my clients' privacy, so I'm not comfortable sharing much on line. I'm a big believer in old fashioned person-to-person communication, however, and I don't charge for initial consultations, so please call or e-mail with your questions.
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DeLila Bergan
RECENT PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS AND NEWS
Aging with a Plan
Good Samaritan Denton Village, Denton, TX
3-part series on in-home and care facility services, legal planning, end-of-life medical decisions and funeral planning. April and May, 2024.
NYT Article on Elder Mediation
Paula Span's great New Old Age column in the NYT features elder mediation and interviews DeLila Bergan, see https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/health/elder-care-family-mediators.html