This IRS publication may give you the answers you need. Some continuing care retirement communities are very attractive and offer many amenities but be careful in trying to claim medical expenses for things like food or the rent component to stay in one of these facilities. IRS only limits deductible medical costs for the medical care incurred while staying in the facility. Here is where it makes its distinctions.
- If you, your spouse, or your dependent is in a nursing home primarily for medical care, then the entire nursing home cost (including meals and lodging) is deductible as a medical expense.
- If that individual is in a home primarily for non-medical reasons, then only the cost of the actual medical care is deductible as a medical expense, not the cost of the meals and lodging.
So the crux of your argument depends on the type of facility you are referring to. Nursing home or retirement community, that is the question?
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