"Dementia Dignity and Advance Care Planning Act."

This bill creates Dementia-Specific Advance Directives (DSADs), allowing New Jersey residents with dementia to formally document their healthcare preferences - such as refusing artificial feeding or hospitalization - while they still have decision-making capacity. It establishes a secure electronic registry for DSADs, requires healthcare facilities to honor these directives, and defines "comfort feeding only" (hand-fed meals for comfort, without tubes or IVs). The law mandates training for healthcare staff on DSADs and requires facilities to provide comfort feeding options aligned with a patient’s DSAD. It directly affects individuals with dementia, their families, and all hospitals, nursing homes, and care facilities in New Jersey.