Family Caregivers to Share Wisdom at Feb 10th PBG Fearless Caregiver Conference

Feb. 3, 2011 - PRLog -- Today’s Caregiver magazine and FearlessCaregiver.com, the nation’s foremost print magazine and Web community for family and professional caregivers since 1995, announced today that Dr. Jamie Huysman, PsyD, LCSW, CAP, CFT, leading authority, speaker and media expert on caregiver burnout, compassion fatigue and addictions, will speak at the Palm Beach Gardens Fearless Caregiver Conference on February
10th at the Doubletree Hotel Palm Beach Gardens.

Dr Jamie and dozens of non profit, home care, insurance experts, aging experts and professional caregivers will spend the day training families at the one day seminar and lunch. A limited number of complimentary family caregiver tickets are being sponsored by the Area Agency on Aging of Palm Beach Treasure Coast and FearlessCaregiver.com.
Registration Includes lunch: Register at FearlessCaregiver.com or by calling (877) 829-2734. Doubletree Hotel Palm Beach Gardens is located at the corner of PGA Boulevard and Military Trail in Palm Beach Gardens.

Dr. Huysman, is the co-founder of Leeza’s Place and co-authored the book, Take Your Oxygen First---Protecting Your Health and Happiness While Caring for a Loved One with Memory Loss, with Leeza Gibbons and geriatrician Rosemary Laird, M.D. Dr. Jamie is also the new Professional Issues Editor at Today’s Caregiver magazine, the first publication dedicated to the lives of family and professional caregivers.

Supporting the celebration are leading care organizations including Humana, Area Agency on Aging of Palm Beach Treasure Coast, Inc., VITAS Innovative Hospice Care, Project Lifesaver and Molift, among dozens of other exhibitors and resources. More than 35,000 family and professional caregivers in 24 states have learned how to be a Fearless Caregiver Advocate for their loved ones, clients and themselves at a Fearless Caregiver Conference.

What Support Is Available For Florida Family Caregivers? The financial decisions made at the state level have enormous consequences to the two million caregivers living in Florida. Join caregiving experts for the day to learn how these decisions will affect you and what support will be available as you care for your loved ones.


“I am extremely excited that Dr. Jamie will be joining us for the day. We have been friends and colleagues for nearly twenty years and it has been a real joy to watch him interact with family caregivers at our previous events. We are also thrilled that he consented to become our Professional Issues Editor at Today’s Caregiver magazine. I know our readers will love him as much as the attendees at our events have,” said Gary Barg, Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Today’s Caregiver magazine and FearlessCaregiver.com, as well as author of the book The Fearless Caregiver and host of the Fearless Caregiver Conferences.

Barg added, “We are proud that the Area Agency on Aging of Palm Beach Treasure Coast has asked us to bring this program to the Palm Beach/Treasure Coast area as the latest stops of the 2011 Fearless Caregiver Conference tour. The most recent Fearless Caregiver Conferences in New Haven, Connecticut and our 100th Fearless Caregiver Conference in Port St Lucie, Florida 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, autism, stoke, Social Security, Medicare, diabetes, incontinence and Parkinson’s throughout the day”.

Speakers for the Palm Beach Gardens Fearless Caregiver Conference to include:
• Rosa Bruno, Bilingual Consumer Services Manager, Area Agency on Aging of Palm Beach Treasure Coast
• Debra Kleesattel, Ph. D., Director of Operations, Humana Cares
• Dr. Jamie Huysman, PsyD, LCSW, CAP, CFT, Professional Issues Editor, Today’s Caregiver magazine
• Rev. Deborah Caron-Galtere, Senior Chaplain, VITAS Innovative Hospice Care
• Chief Gene Saunders, CEO/Founder, Project Lifesaver International
• Gary Edward Barg, Conference Host, syndicated columnist, Founder/Editor-In-Chief of Today’s Caregiver magazine and FearlessCaregiver.com

Fearless Caregiver Conference participants will learn:
• What support is available for South Florida 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

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

Sponsorship opportunities are still available. Call (800) 829-2734 for information and to reserve your space. 2011 schedule will include: Nashville, Tennessee, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Haven and Danbury, Connecticut, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Florida and other cities TBA.

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