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bjbjz What about food? Well, it s customary for the family to include the caregiver when
shopping for food for the home. What a caregiver will do is they will make a list of all the
grocery items, because they re the ones that are preparing the meals for your aging parent.
They ll prepare a list and include everything they need to make meals throughout the week
and any toiletries and personal things that are needed as well. Then you, as the son or
daughter, go out to get that food. The caregiver will also include things that they want, but
since they re preparing food for your parent, they re also, in most cases, eating that food.
So it does increase the grocery bill a little bit because now you have another mouth, and
you have to buy a little extra than what your parent, what one person would eat. But, again,
they re preparing the meals. Most caregivers do bring a lot of their own food. When they
re off, they ll bring back things that they re more used to eating and maybe might prepare
that on a side dish or separate from what they prepare for your parent. Now, in an assisted
living facility, we charge a $10 a day meal allowance. That s because in an assisted living
facility, there s usually not a kitchenette for the caregiver to cook their own food,
and the facility does not allow the caregiver also to go in and eat with the residents.
At an assisted living facility, typically they ll have to go to an employee lounge,
and then they have to have, also, food brought in because there s no place for them to cook
it. Or what they ll do is the facility will sell them a meal tickets, which then they
can buy as needed because each of our eating patterns individually is different, so a $10
meal allowance just covers it all. Typically and for most facilities, the $10 meal allowance
is actually easier than purchasing the tickets at the assisted living facility. The other
occasion, too, is if you feel that the We had a caregiver that actually brought it up.
He felt that he ate more organic food, and he didn t want the family to shoulder the
cost of buying organic food and specialty items that he typically eats. So, he requested
a meal allowance, which actually saved the family money, and then he s responsible for
getting his own food. ve had situations, too, where a daughter didn t like the fact that
their grocery money was being used to buy Silk milk or items that her dad never would
eat or drink. So then we instituted a meal allowance, too. So it s just very nice, cut
and dry method, and it s also, for budgetary concerns, a $10 meal allowance if there s
30 days of care is $300 a month in food expense and nothing above that. Compared to the previous
month s bill where the caregiver was just including their stuff on the patient s bill
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