DSH and the Office of Patient Rights provides no services whatsoever to patients who are entering dementia/ Alzheimer’s stage in life;
These patients get no guidance while they still have clear thinking how to settle financial matters, Releases of Information, express their wishes, or how they want to be treated when/if they enter into a full state of dementia/ Alzheimer’s;
Patients have never been given information about California’s right to end one’s life if diagnosed with a terminal illness, and what the protocol will be to invoke that procedure.