Podcast: From Crisis to Connection - How WRAP Reaches Those Hardest to Help
Follow Cash Rich’s journey through addiction, trauma and medical crisis, and how a health care program uncovered the deeper reasons behind his resistance to life-saving care.
For more than three years now, Cash Rich has lived life from a wheelchair — the result of severe medical conditions, including degenerative disc disease, stemming from a lifetime of mental and physical trauma, substance misuse and addiction and a self-destructive lifestyle he says was rooted in childhood abuse.
In 2021, alcoholism, one of the few constants in Cash’s life, became an urgent and life-threatening medical crisis. Drinking had damaged Cash’s pancreatitis and left him needing life-saving treatment — but to the frustration and confusion of his medical team, the 58-year-old refused.
Join us as we follow Cash’s journey, meet the people behind a unique program called WRAP (Working to Reduce Admissions Program) designed to support the highest utilizers of health care services, and learn how WRAP social worker Kathrine Acus uncovered the real reasons Cash was resisting life-changing care.
About Living Healthy Together
Each week we share stories, advice and insights from those closest to care in Vermont and northern New York while exploring the local and national issues shaping health care. Catch Living Healthy Together live airing on Radio Vermont's WDEV Fridays at 1 pm.
