The last time the United States issued a worldwide alert was October 2011, although it has issued other, less-urgent worldwide travel guidance more recently.
For federal tax purposes, medical expenses can include the cost of medical care in a nursing home, home for the aged, or similar institution, for the taxpayer or his or her spouse or dependents. It can include the cost of meals and lodging in the home if a principal reason for being in the home is to get medical care.
Grace and Carrie feel that Carrie's biggest mistake was switching from traditional Medicare to a Medicare HMO. More than 12 million Americans need some form of long-term care, and the population of the very old (over 85) is expected to triple by 2040. Medicaid is the largest source of public money for long-term care, paying for almost half of the nation's nursing home care. But families pay, too- out-of-pocket spending accounts for more than 20 percent of what we spend on long-term care.