Dementia: major neurocognitive disorder.

Existing law regulates the licensure and operation of residential care facilities for the elderly, including the adoption of building standards to provide for locked and secured perimeters in residential care facilities for the elderly that care for persons with dementia. Existing law, the California Conservatorship Jurisdiction Act, generally establishes the standards and procedures for establishing the proper jurisdiction for a proceeding to appoint a conservator of a person, an estate, or both. Existing law provides that application of these provisions to a conservatee with dementia is subject to the specified limitations. Existing law authorizes a conservator to place a conservatee in a secured perimeter residential care facility for the elderly, as specified, or to authorize the administration of certain prescribed medications upon a court's finding that among other things, the conservatee has dementia and a functional impairment. This bill would replace references to the term dementia in these provisions with major neurocognitive disorders. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.