A quart is 2 pints. A pint is sixteen fluid ounces of water and weighs about 16 ounces (avoirdupois weight.) A gallon is 4 quarts (8 pints) and thus weighs about 8 pounds. Five gallons would be about 40 pounds.
In some cases, if your mother is on Medicaid, she can designate you as her personal home care aide and you can get paid a small amount through Medicaid. If your mother has her own resources, you can draw up a contract agreeing to work as her home health aide and she can pay you a salary that you both agree upon.
I want to be a caregiver to my grandmother in law and was wondering how to apply for it and get paid for caring for her and taking her places to. She has Medicare but we don't know if she is being cover all the way without wasting money to pay the doctor a fee or something like that.