ANN ARBOR, MI — For in-home private caregiver Kathy Hopps, caring for two trailblazers who helped revolutionize in-home nursing and hospice care in their final days of life brought her journey full circle.
Hopps cared for Ingrid Deininger, who co-founded Individualized Home Nursing Care (IHNC) in Ann Arbor in the early 1980s when hospice and in-home care did not yet have the presence in the U.S. as it does today. Hopps was her caregiver after she went under the care of Arbor Hospice prior to her death at 83 in 2019.
Now she cares for Lois Jelneck, another IHNC founder who is currently under hospice care at the age of 97…