For Immediate Release:  November 3, 2016              

Contact:
Maria Thomas, Communications Coordinator
303.624.5245
mariathomas@trucare.org

TRU Community Care Makes More Meaningful Moments Possible

(Lafayette, CO) – November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month and hospices across the country are reaching out to raise awareness about the highest quality care for all people coping with life-limiting illness.

“Every year, nearly 1.6 million people living with a life-limiting illness receive care from hospice and palliative care providers in this country,” said J. Donald Schumacher, president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. “These highly-trained professionals ensure that patients and families find dignity, respect, and love during life’s most difficult journey.”

Hospice is not a place. Hospice and palliative care programs provide pain management, symptom control, psychosocial support, and spiritual care to patients and their families when a cure is not possible.

Hospice and palliative care combines the highest level of quality medical care with the emotional and spiritual support that families need most when facing the end of life. Through this specialized quality care, we see many patients and their families experience more meaningful moments together.  Hospice helps them focus on living despite a terminal diagnosis.

Although the word ‘hospice’ may carry a heavy weight, the weight seems lighter when you have good people on your side. That has been our experience with TRU. Their kindness has made this very difficult window of our lives just a little easier to cope with. We are very grateful. – Ciara, daughter of a TRU patient

Throughout the month of November, TRU Community Care will be joining organizations across the nation hosting activities that will help the community understand how important hospice and palliative care can be.

More information about hospice, palliative care, and advance care planning is available from TRU Community Care at trucare.org.

Stories showing the many ways hospice makes more special moments possible can be found at www.momentsoflife.org.

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TRU Community Care serves Boulder, Louisville, Lafayette, Broomfield, Erie and beyond. TRU Hospice of Northern Colorado offers services in Greeley and extends to Weld and Larimer counties. Additional services include grief support, which is available to anyone in the community free of charge. It is a privilege for us to help those who are grieving regain their balance and resume healthy living. Grief groups include adult, teen and child as well as equine therapy. At TRU Community Care, we add life to days, because that’s what TRUly matters. The sooner you call, the sooner we can help – 303.442.0961 or visit trucare.org.