Fort Lauderdale Caregiving Conference Designed To Reduce Stress and Answer Caregivers Questions

June 2, 2011 - PRLog -- The financial decisions made daily at the state level have enormous consequences to the nearly 2 million caregivers living in Florida. Join caregiving experts for the day to learn how these decisions will affect you and what support is available in Fort Lauderdale as you care for your loved ones. Today's Caregiver magazine and caregiver.com, celebrating 16 years of service to family and professional caregivers, presents the 108th Fearless Caregiver Conference on June 16th at The Sheraton Suites Cypress Creek – Fort Lauderdale.

Fearless Caregiver Tour History: More than 38,000 caregivers have attended a Fearless Caregiver Conference since Today’s Caregiver magazine started this tour. “We are excited about this event since Fort Lauderdale was the home of the very first conference,” said Gary Barg, host of the Fearless Caregiver Conferences and editor-in-chief of Today’s Caregiver magazine.

“The latest stops in Danbury, CT and Minneapolis, MN were tremendous successes with hundreds of family and professional caregivers participating in full-day events where they received answers to their caregiving questions from physicians, spiritual leaders, and healthcare experts in topics such as  Alzheimer’s, MS, cancer, diabetes and Parkinson’s throughout the day,” Barg said.

Registration Includes lunch:  Only a limited number of free tickets are still available for family caregivers to attend the Fort Lauderdale Fearless Caregiver Conference on June 16th. Tickets are available at FearlessCaregiver.com or by calling 954-362-8126. Sheraton Suites Cypress Creek is located at 555 NW 62 Street in Fort Lauderdale.

Fearless Caregiver Conference participants will learn:
•   What support is available for family caregivers
•   Where the money Is for caregivers
•   How to partner with their family members
•   How to ask questions of healthcare leaders in the area
•   How to get a loved one to stop driving
•   Share information with their fellow caregivers regardless of disease or caregiving issue


Who Should Attend?
•   Children of aging parents,
•   parents caring for children,
•   spousal caregivers,
•   long- distance caregivers,
•   grandparent caregivers,
•   Pastoral caregivers,
•   volunteer caregivers,
•   professional caregivers
•   and anyone else seeking hands-on advice for his or her caregiving challenges.

Gary Barg – The event host and moderator. A noted speaker, writer and publisher on caregiving issues since 1995, Gary Barg is founder and editor-in-chief of the first national magazine for caregivers, Today’s Caregiver, as well the original online caregiver community, caregiver.com. This will mark the 108th Fearless Caregiver Conference that Mr. Barg has hosted.

Gary Barg is the author of the book, The Fearless Caregiver: how to get the best care for your loved one and still have a life of your own.

Sponsorship opportunities still available.

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Established in 1995, Caregiver Media Group has become the recognized media authority on caregiving through Today’s Caregiver magazine, Caregiver.com, the Fearless Caregiver Conferences, the award winning book - The Fearless Caregiver: How to Get the Best Care for Your Loved One and Still Have a Life of Your Own, as well as Caregiver Media Group's award winning content and custom publications.

Today’s Caregiver magazine contains cover interviews with celebrity caregivers, articles on caregiving issues and vital resources for all caregivers. Cover interviews have included Leeza Gibbons, Clay Walker, Kathy Greenlee, Debbie Reynolds, Dixie Carter, Debbie Reynolds, Della Reese, Linda Dano, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Robert Urich and Clay Aiken. The digital version of the magazine is available free of charge at Caregiver.com.