Direct caregivers in facilities for people with disabilities assist residents in most areas of their lives, including bathing, dressing and eating. Often, the demands of the job take a toll, expressed in high levels of tension and mental overload, negatively affect the quality of service provided. The aim of this manual is to create an alternate assessment gauge, other than just eating well, in which the individual, surrounded by a network of partners, takes the central role. This method of assessment will take into account additional elements connected to eating and being fed, and will lessen the dissonance generated among direct caregivers who “suffice” to relate only to the physical element