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Caring For Our Community Since 1976.

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Volunteer Care Plan Options

What can our volunteers do for your patients? Read below (click on + for expanded description) and make your request today!

11th Hour

11th Hour volunteers provide compassionate presence and comfort to TRU patients who are imminently dying and prefer not to be left alone. They also offer respite for caregivers who need a break from companioning their loved ones. 11th Hour vigil support includes multiple 3-hour volunteer shifts to cover an individualized schedule, usually overnight. View our 11th Hour flyer for a more detailed description.

Comfort Touch

Comfort Touch (CT) is a nurturing form of acupressure that is safe and appropriate for the elderly and chronically ill and can be provided by volunteers with in-house training. CT volunteers focus on hands and feet only.

Companionship

Volunteers meet patients where they are physically, emotionally, and cognitively, offering compassionate support in the form of companionship. Companionship assignments are one hour a week 3-4x/month for hospice patients and 1-2x/month for palliative patients.

Craniosacral Therapy

Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle hands-on massage technique designed to release tension in the fascia. It is generally seen as a very relaxing and light-pressure approach to massage.

End of Life Doula

An End-of-Life Doula (EOL Doula) practices non-medical holistic death care that assists the family and the dying person navigate through the physical, emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of one’s end of life journey. Doulas work directly with clinical staff as necessary. Doulas may support patients in planning end of life experiences, including funeral planning, and can advocate for patient’s wishes post death. View our End-of-Life Doula flyer for more details.

Errands

Upon cash, debit card, remote or check payment for desired items, volunteers are permitted to pick up and deliver groceries and other needed items, prescriptions (authorized and arranged prior to pick-up) and deliver bill payments. Details to be defined in request.

Feldenkrais Therapy

The Feldenkrais Method is a type of exercise therapy devised by Israeli Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984) during the mid-20th century. The method is claimed to reorganize connections between the brain and body and so improve body movement and psychological state.

Light Housekeeping / Organizing

Volunteers provide simple housekeeping tasks including laundry, organizing paperwork or household items, washing and putting away dishes, taking out the trash, changing bed sheets, etc. Volunteers will not be asked to clean bathrooms or other deep cleaning tasks.

Massage

Therapeutic Massage is done by people trained in the structures of the body on how to improve symptoms and increase comfort. Massage treatments are provided 4x total per assignment. Additional requests per single patient must be discussed with Volunteer Services.

Meal Prep

Using food already in the patient’s home, volunteers will help the patient prep and cook meals. This care plan is ideal for patients with limited mobility who live alone.

Military Recognition Pinning Ceremony

Veteran volunteers and/or volunteers with military knowledge conduct Veteran pinning ceremonies wherever a patient resides while receiving TRU hospice or palliative care services. Per the patient or family's request, pinning ceremonies may be conducted bedside 1:1 or in a room full of the patient’s loved ones and staff.

Music

Talented musicians share soothing music that is tailored to the personal preferences of patients. Volunteers also utilize a wide variety of recorded music to stimulate memories and conversation.

Notary

A volunteer notary will go to the patient’s home or facility to certify documents as needed. This is a one-time request.  

Personal Reflections

Volunteers provide guided interviews or free-flowing storytelling that is either recorded in a personal journal, on video, or on audio, per the patient’s wishes; and the recordings are gifted to patients and families upon completion in digital format.

Pet Therapy

Volunteers with certified therapy pets provide their services to patients, both hospice and palliative. Therapy pets are an amazing way for patients to receive furry companionship.

Reiki

Reiki is a tradition that has roots in Japanese concepts around the flow of energy in the body. The gentle touch of Reiki is associated with stress reduction and encouraging the body to heal.

Respite

The respite care plan can be utilized up to 4 hours per week. One of our volunteers will sit with the patient while their care giver tends to themselves. Volunteers are not to provide any personal cares.

Transportation

Volunteers with qualified auto liability insurance limits provide transportation to patients able to independently transfer themselves into and out of volunteer cars. Volunteers may be scheduled to wait for patients to provide transportation to and from patient appointments.

Veteran-Veteran Companionship

Veteran volunteers provide a Veteran patient with company and conversation as desired. Veteran volunteers visit up to an hour a week 3-4x/month for hospice patients and 1-2x/month for palliative patients.

Yard Work

Patients needing help with simple yard clean up and planting may enjoy companionship outside with the volunteer.

 

About TRU

TRU Community Care (TRU) affirms life at every step of your journey with illness and loss. Our vision is to lead a healthcare transformation by engaging with our communities and offering innovative, meaningful care for those living with illness and loss.

Founded as Boulder Hospice in 1976, TRU is a Colorado-licensed, Medicare and Medicaid-certified, nonprofit health care organization serving Boulder, Broomfield, Adams, Jefferson, Arapahoe, Denver, and Weld Counties and beyond. With a focus on providing a continuum of care for members of our community living with advanced illness and loss, TRU’s programs include TRU Hospice, TRU PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), TRU Palliative Care, Landmark Memory Care, and TRU Grief Services.

TRU Hospice is proudly accredited by The Joint Commission and is a five-star-level hospice in NHPCO's We Honor Veterans program created in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). TRU is a member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE), and the National PACE Association (NPA).

Our Services

TRU Grief Services
& Administrative Offices
2594 Trailridge Drive East
Lafayette, CO 80026

TRU Hospice Care Center
1950 Mountain View Avenue
4th Floor South
Longmont, CO 80501

TRU Thrift Shop
5565 Arapahoe Avenue
Boulder, CO 80303

TRU PACE Program
2593 Park Lane
Lafayette, CO 80026

TRU Memory Care
1744 S Public Road
Lafayette, CO 80026

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