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.
What the law says is that if you go into a care home you will be given certain allowances, but you will be assessed on your ability to pay. One allowance is that the first twelve weeks of your care costs will be free, or if you have a dependent still living in your family home it will not need to be sold. This might mean Mavisâs home has to be sold before she is ready to leave. 2  If Social Services can prove that the principal reason Mavis gave her home to Stuart and Roger was to avoid paying care home fees they can set-aside the transfer, and Mavis will still have to pay for her care home fees.