Nursing Home Action Group, Guidelines for the Provision of Medical Treatment and Nursing Care in Nursing Homes, Draft II (April 1984) (available from the Nursing Home Action Group, P.O. Box 65363, St. Paul, MN 55165) [hereinafter referred to as NHAG Guidelines].
2.
See, e.g., Task Force of the National Institute on Aging, Senility Reconsidered: Treatment Possibilities for Mental Impairments in the Elderly, Journal of The American Medical Association244(3): 259–63 (July 18, 1980).
3.
Transcript at 15-16, Hoyt v. St. Mary's Rehabilitation Center, No. 773555 (District Ct. Hennepin County, Minn. February 13, 1981), reversed on other grounds sub nom. State v. Hoyt, 304 N.W.2d 884 (Minn. 1981).
4.
NHAG Guidelines, supra note 1, at 10–11. The definition of the individual's bodily condition as “irreversibly, irreparably, and terminally ill, and death is imminent” is taken from RabkinM. T., Orders Not to Resuscitate, New England Journal of Medicine295:364–66 (August 12, 1976).
5.
The Need for Annual Surveys, in National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, Consumer Statement of Principles for the Nursing Home Regulatory System—State Licensure and Federal Certification Programs (September 1983) at 102–04.
6.
Doctors, Nursing Homes at Odds, St. Paul Dispatch, January 31, 1983, at 3A.
7.
The Long-Standing Deplorable Conditions in Nursing Homes Persist, Report Says, Peninsula Times Tribune, August 18, 1983, at 1.
8.
Center for the Study of Responsible Law, Leaving Them Defenseless—Reagan's Drive to Destroy Nursing Home Law and Order (Center for Responsive Law, Washington, D.C.) (March 1983).
9.
Patients May Feel Pain in Hospitals' Concern for Costs, Minneapolis Star/Tribune, March 22, 1984, at 1B.
10.
Annual Report, 1983, of Minnesota Office of Health Facility Complaints, Minnesota Department of Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota (prepared and submitted to the Commissioner of Health and to the Legislature) (March 1984) at 25–26.
11.
NHAG Guidelines, supra note 1, at 11.
12.
Id. at 8.
13.
Domestic Abuse Against the Elderly, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Human Services of the House Select Committee on Aging, 96th Cong., 1st Sess. (April 28, 1980); Abuse of Older Persons, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Human Services of the House Select Committee on Aging, 97th Cong., 1st Sess. (March 23, 1981).
14.
See, e.g., Conn. Gen. Stat. Ann. §§469-14 to 25 (West Supp. 1980); Md Ann. Code art. 88A§§106–110 (1979); Minn. Stat. §626.557 (1980).
15.
NHAG Guidelines, supra note 1, at 9.
16.
Id.
17.
Id. at 14.
18.
Resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of the United States Handicapped Federation, St Paul, Minnesota (April 12, 1984)
