<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Nancy, I thought of one other thing. The big problem I've had with restricting my father's diet is that even though we are paying through the nose for others to prepare his food, I'm still sporting several hundred dollars a month of extra food expenses because the institutions who feed him do not have access to gluten-free foods from their suppliers. So what happens is that a menu with 40 items ends up being for my dad a menu of five items. Now if you seat a person with dementia in a dining room where others are feasting on delicious looking goodies, and he is down to plain meat and one or two plain vegetables with no bread, and you've got a behavior problem on your hands. (And may I say, rightly so!) At both institutions that serve my father, he has ended up in a rage saying that he is an attorney and by golly he's going to eat what he wants to eat and he wants some of that delicious pie they are serving. They say they are restricted by rules that say they have to comply with his wishes when he throws a fit like this. What's a daughter to do? I'll tell you what I've done...I've been sending off mail order for Gillian's French Rolls and have hired someone to go to the health food store and buy Rice Dream Ice Cream for him to have available for his sweet tooth. When he has good food to eat, he's as happy and as sweet as you could ever want....and HEALTHY!! If you are thinking about addressing this issue on a legislative level, then please think of the problem the institutions have in getting these foods from their suppliers. My dad's day care is Jewish, and their foods must be kosher, which adds all sorts of complication to the supplier issue. Doing the best we can with existing circumstances, but tired of handling expenses that Medicare deems unimportant for his health. (We dropped his other health insurance when my sister was advised how comprehensive Medicare is. We have a Medigap policy which pays the other 20%, but they won't touch any expenses that Medicare won't pay. I doubt we could get other insurance now.) Susan Owens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Walter & Susan Owens) [log in to unmask] Dallas, Texas USA