Gary Barg, Founder of Today's Caregiver Magazine & The Fearless Caregiver Conferences (www.caregiver.com)

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Education, Health & Fitness

5.0 • 88 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome Mr. Gary Barg as a guest to the show. Gary is the founder of caregiver.com, Today's Caregiver Magazine, and The Fearless Caregiver Conferences.

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. Today’s Caregiver magazine and caregiver.com combine information, advice and reader’s stories with interviews with celebrity caregiver such as Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Rob Lowe, Dana Reeve, Jennifer Grey, Ed Asner and Debbie Reynolds, among others.

Gary created The Fearless Caregiver Conferences, hosted across the country, which brings together caregivers to share their knowledge and experience and wisdom.His first book, The Fearless Caregiver, includes practical advice, poetry and inspirational stories. His second book, Caregiving Ties that Bind includes many of the over 150 celebrity caregiver cover interviews that he has conducted since 1995.

His newest book, You Are Not Alone, is filled with advice and wisdom learned from family caregivers at over 280 Fearless Caregiver conferences held since 1998.

His awards include the Mature Media Award for writing, International Television Association Golden Reel Award and the Southern Gerontological Society Media Award.Gary serves as a member of the Board of Trustees, National Adult Day Services Association and a Member of the Board, American Association for Caregiver Education.His interviews include; The Today Show, Bloomberg Radio Network, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, USAToday, Miami Herald, NPR Diane Rehm Show, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Parade Magazine.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions
0:06.7	on important age-related matters and topics. Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services,
0:13.3	the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top-rated Local.
0:23.6	Hello and welcome back to all home care matters.
0:25.6	If this is your first time visiting us here to show, we want to say thank you for taking time out to be with us today.
0:30.6	We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters, something that
0:38.0	will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are very excited and honored to welcome a remarkable
0:43.6	guest and friend, Mr. Gary Barg. Gary is the founder of today's caregiver magazine
0:49.8	and the founder of the original online caregiver community caregiver.com. Welcome, Gary.
0:57.9	Well, I'm very much looking forward to talk with you. Thank you for the interview, Lance.
1:03.0	Absolutely. It's our pleasure. It's our pleasure. And I want to kind of start, though, because you're such a known
1:09.0	commodity, I guess, in the caregiver space, Gary.
1:13.7	But where did Gary Barg's story start? And how did you get involved in this space?
1:18.9	Well, I won't go back too far. We'll just go back 33 years. My dad, I'm in South Florida right now, and so I was born and raised in Miami, North Miami Beach,
1:32.8	and my family's here, but I was living in Atlanta getting set up to do work for the 96 Olympics.
1:40.8	And I got the call that dad was, he had retired in 91 and developed bone marrow cancer immediately.
1:52.0	And mom went from love of life for 50 years and partner in a new little business they were starting together and travel companion and to caregiver
2:02.3	and all that that wrought and I had no idea what that was and I would come in my brother was in
2:09.8	New Orleans I was in Atlanta and one of us would be in once every six weeks or so but you don't know
2:15.6	if for a weekend you don't know if you're not a caregiver.
2:19.5	And I always like to say, and I am one now, so caregivers are sneaky a lot because mom would
2:25.6	pull it all together. Everybody would look great, everything would look fine for the two days,
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