Your Covered: With Frank Ruppen artwork
Healing Ties

Your Covered: With Frank Ruppen

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  • February 19th 2013

 On Tuesday February 19th at 1:00 pm EST  we welcome Frank Ruppen from 'You're Covered Insurance Services' to our show. 
Understanding Life, Health and Long Term Care Insurance can be complex.  This has been exacerbated with the passing of the Affordable Care Act. 
Through Frank's hands on approach to educating and ensuring his clients understand  and have the proper coverage at the best rates, Frank will help us all 'Be A Healthy Caregiver'  by sharing his expertise on all the upcoming changes with the Affordable Care Act. 

 

Healing Ties

Beyond Caregiving...How do care?

How do we care for our family, friends, and the strangers we meet? How do we care for the community we live in?

How do we heal the physical, social, financial, spiritual aspects of our life and the lives of those around us?

We do this by creating Healing Ties!

By sharing their stories with host Christopher MacLellan, our guests reveal how they are creating Healing Ties in their community by their words, actions, and deeds.

Meet the Team

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Christopher MacLellan
Host

Affectionately known as “The Bow Tie Guy" in the vast network of family caregivers, Christopher MacLellen is the Author of "What's The Deal with Caregiving" and the host of Healing Ties podcast featured on The Whole Care Network.

The story of Chris and his deceased partner, Richard Schiffer was chronicled in a 2015 Pulitzer Prize nominated story “In Sickness and In Health: A Couple’s Final Journey” about their journey of caregiving. Seen by over 500,000 people world-wide the story told of the challenges that LGBT partners have in dealing with the medical and legal system, but it also told of the love and joy that Richard’s last years had on their relationship.

Chris' masters degree thesis, Caregiving, Stress and its Impact on the Work Place was accepted by the faculty at Gonzaga University in 2016 where he earned a masters degree in Leadership and Communication.

Chris founded the Whole Care Network in 2016, presents regularly on topics that impact family Caregivers and now is Aging Gayfully after caregiving has ended.