Matter of Niskanen

OPINION

LANSING, Judge.

Joyce Niskanen appeals the trial court’s refusal to dismiss a commitment petition on several grounds and the trial court’s finding that she is a mentally ill person within the meaning of Minn.Stat. § 253B.02, subd. 13 (1984). We affirm.

FACTS

Joyce Niskanen is a 64-year-old woman with a long history of mental illness. Nis-kanen was committed to the University of Minnesota Hospitals as a mentally ill person in June 1985 and provisionally discharged to the Baptist Residence, a nursing home. She continued under the care of university psychiatrists and was prescribed…