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Assisted living.(Your Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
In your July report on assisted-living facilities, you say that assisted-living meals, lodging, and medical care are tax-deductible as medical expenses. My accountant tells me you are in error, or you have information not included in the IRS tax guide. Please clarify this statement.
SUSAN AGEE KILGORE, TX
The article notes that the expenses are subject to the same 7.5 percent rule that applies to other medical deductions. We should have explained that in more detail. To qualify, the individual in assisted living generally must have severe cognitive impairment or need help with at least two activities of daily living, such as bathing or eating. See IRS publication 502 at www.irs.gov.
In your report, you refer to a Vermont facility, Washington Elms. Washington Elms is not a licensed assisted-living facility In our state we were concerned that the term was being diluted, so we defined it with some key criteria: that every ...
- Assisted living losing luster for developers .(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Crain's Cleveland Business SANTIAGO, RAQUEL August 7, 2000 700+ words
...even faster proliferation of assisted-living homes appears headed for a wall. "People who got into assisted living realize it's tight," said...thinking twice" about developing assisted living. Although assisted-living...
- Assisted living continues as preferred new option.(Brief Article)(Polling Data)
- Magazine article from: McKnight's Long-Term Care News Guagliardo, John May 5, 1999 700+ words
...Bill Gillick is excited about assisted living and the services it offers...offer subacute care) and five assisted living residences, most in western...it recently expanded into assisted living. Earlier this year, Elderwood...
- Assisted living regulations come of age.
- Magazine article from: Nursing Homes Murer, Matthew February 1, 1999 700+ words
...in the long-term care continuum, assisted living is facing many of the same regulatory...the questions now being asked of the assisted living industry must sound familiar: What...amount of regulation to impose on assisted living? Would such regulations truly guarantee...
- Assisted-living report finds deficiencies.
- Newspaper article from: Providence Journal (Providence, RI) January 11, 2006 700+ words
...violence find a home in the Central Falls assisted-living facility where he allegedly murdered...monitoring of the multimillion dollar assisted-living industry. The 69-page report points...with "no clear consensus about what assisted living is or should be." "We found an...
- Assisted living comes of age. (assisted living facilities in New York, NY)
- Magazine article from: Crain's New York Business Koss-Feder, Laura October 20, 1997 700+ words
...money to spend. Their focus is on "assisted-living" facilities - apartment complexes...housekeeping and activities. Some 20,000 assisted-living units are slated to come on the market...of the Empire State Association of Assisted Living Facilities, based in Albany. There...
- ASSISTED LIVING FEDERATION OF AMERICA (ALFA).(management issues)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Nursing Homes WAYNE, KAREN December 1, 1999 700+ words
Assisted Living: New Industry, New Millennium When you look at the...of our residents, it is easy to understand how the assisted living movement developed. Most assisted living residents have lived through decades of phenomenal...
- Assisted living: on the slippery slope to regulation? (View On...
- Magazine article from: Nursing Homes Stoil, Michael J. June 1, 2002 700+ words
...day hearing on the progress of the Assisted Living Workgroup established at its request...collaboration between providers and critics of assisted living, however, is a yawning chasm of...goal. The Consumer Consortium on Assisted Living (CCAL) and its allies believe that...
- Assisted living: the regulatory outlook.
- Magazine article from: Nursing Homes Murer, Matthew J. July 1, 1997 700+ words
...turning to such alternatives as assisted living. And they are doing so in...numbers. How big a force has assisted living become in the senior living...investors know very well that assisted living is a booming industry. A...