LORI NOVICKI HOGAN
When Lori Novicki Hogan graduated from UNO in 1984, she never realized what an impact a 90-year-old woman would have on her life. The needs of her husband’s aging grandmother, however, proved to be the impetus for the founding of a multimillion-dollar international company, Home Instead Senior Care. Today, the company founded in 1994 by Hogan and her husband, Paul, has grown to more than 1,000 franchises in 12 global markets. It all began, however, as a small family affair in 1985 when Paul and his large family began to provide in-home care for his 90-year-old grandmother. She would live 11 more years, cared for in her own home. “During that time, we realized how many resources are needed for this type of care, which made us wonder how smaller families, who do not have access to this type of support, coped,” Lori said in a UNO Alum magazine article. And so was born Home Instead. The company provides non-medical home care services for seniors, including companionship, meal preparation, medication reminders, light housekeeping and escort for errands and shopping.