Outsourcing our parents to India???

After three years of caring for his increasingly frail mother andfather in their Florida retirement home, Steve Herzfeld was exhaustedand faced with spending his family’s last resources to put the couplein an affordable nursing home.  So he made what he saw as the only sensible decision: He “outsourced” his parents to India.  His 89-year-old mother, Frances, who suffers from advancedParkinson’s disease, now receives daily massages, physical therapy and24-hour help getting to the bathroom, all for about $15 a day. Hisfather, Ernest, 93, an Alzheimer’s patient, has a full-time personalassistant and a cook who has won him over to a vegetarian diethealthful enough that he no longer needs cholesterol medication.  Best of all, the plentiful drugs the couple require cost less than20 percent of what they do at home, and salaries for their six-personstaff are so low that the pair now bank $1,000 a month of their $3,000Social Security payment. They aim to use the savings as an emergencyfund, or to pay for airline tickets if family members want to visit.

More in the Seattle Times (via Chicago Tribune),
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003819509_indiahomes03.html

Ed:  If I tried this with my mom you can bet I’d be cut out of the will….