Key legal question
Whether pension costs for a medically prescribed short stay in a nursing home are deductible as medical expenses.
Extracted holding
Yes, for a medically prescribed short stay in a nursing home, pension costs are deductible to the extent they exceed insurance reimbursements and household savings.
Extracted reasoning
The court distinguished short-term medically indicated stays from permanent nursing-home residence. For a short stay, the taxpayer keeps the home and continues to bear fixed living costs, so the pension element is not purely living expense in the same way as for permanent residents.