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Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D., is a writer, editor, and retired environmental scientist, who for over a decade has helped to manage continuous, at-home, skilled nursing care of his wife, quadriplegic and ventilator-dependent due to multiple sclerosis. For the past several years, he has also managed the skilled nursing care at home of his nearly-100-year-old mother, bedridden, virtually quadriplegic, medicated and fed through a gastric tube, and on a pacemaker. Diane R. Beggin, R.N., began her career as a Professional Register Nurse directly in the critical care unit. For the past ten years, Diane, as head nurse for Dr. Cooper, has used her training and experience to establish the documentation and protocols used in the daily practice of caring for two quadriplegic, ventilator–dependent patients in the home.