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    Smile Outsource parents to India :)

    After three years of caring for his increasingly frail mother and father in their Florida retirement home, Steve Herzfeld was exhausted and faced with spending his family's last resources to put the couple in a cheap nursing home.

    So he made what he saw as the only sensible decision: He outsourced his parents to India.

    Today his 89-year-old mother, Frances, who suffers from advanced Parkinson's disease, gets daily massages, physical therapy and 24-hour help getting to the bathroom, all for about $15 a day. His father, Ernest, 93, an Alzheimer's patient, has a full-time personal assistant and a cook who has won him over to a vegetarian diet healthy enough that he no longer needs his cholesterol medication.

    Best of all, the plentiful drugs the couple require cost less than 20 percent of what they do at home, and salaries for their six-person staff are so cheap that the two now bank $1,000 a month of their $3,000 Social Security payment. They aim to use the savings as an emergency fund or to pay for airline tickets if family members want to visit.

    "I wouldn't say it's a solution for everybody, but I consider it the best solution to our problem," said Herzfeld, 56, a management expert who made the move to India with his parents, and now, as "care manager rather than the actual worker," has time for things such as bike rides to the grocery and strolls in the botanical gardens with his father.

    With the cost of nursing homes, home nurses and medications painfully high in the United States, the elderly and their caregivers have long looked abroad for better solutions
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    Default Re: Outsource parents to India :)

    my luck I woiuld be outsourced to bangladash
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    Default Re: Outsource parents to India :)

    Arby: bring your waders!


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    Default Re: Outsource parents to India :)

    I thought this was a joke at first!

    Well at least he went with them and didn't just Fed-Ex them over.

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    Default Re: Outsource parents to India :)

    I will be slow boated, I sure, over weight for air shipment
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    Default Re: Outsource parents to India :)

    Quote Originally Posted by arbycoffee View Post
    I will be slow boated, I sure, over weight for air shipment
    I'd have to be sent over in several shipments!

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