Do any of the Medicaid eligible assisted living facilities offer gluten free menus?

With my mother, the rehab facility accommodated her dietary requirements only after her doctor wrote orders for it. Could you get your mom's doctor to write an order for her? Is there a dietician at the facility you can consult?

I am certain the facility accommodates low salt, low sugar and other dietary requirements. Unless your mom requires breads and pastas that are gluten free, I don't know why they can't just offer her foods that are naturally free of gluten. Hopefully, the nutritionist or dietician can help you.

At my mom’s NH, the diabetics had their own dining tables & got slightly different meals. My mom - once she became bedfast - had her meal plan changed to have all foods that needed it to be “mechanized”. The MD, who is the medical director of the NH, writes orders for stuff like this & only then can it be carried out by dietary.

If your mom’s gluten free diet is a lifestyle choice rather than needed or required due to a disease, the facility may not do it at all or if they do she’s going to be billed for a special meal plan. You might want to speak with the head of dietary as to if anyone else is GF and how it has been dealt with. Facility will have a foodservice provider (Arrow, Sysco) that stuff must be ordered from.

If your mom has a 10% weight loss within 30 days, that’s a crisis point. If that has happened she can get supplemental feeding. Just what depends on the facilities ability. Usually year it’s a extra meal replacement liquid, like TwinCal with probiotics. Twin Cal is more than just Boost or liquid yogurt & has drs orders written to get it. My mom’s hospice MD wrote orders for it to be taken twice a day at the NH (as it was hospice it was billed to Medicare) and the NH MD wrote the orders for mechanized meals from dietary at the NH (as it’s dietary at the NH it’s part of Medicaid room&board fees). Each separate as each different billing & fiefdom.....

If its a rehab facility I don't know why you can't request a special diet. But like said, it has to be doctor ordered.

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