Imagine this: Your aging parents are increasingly frail. You are exhausted, and you don't have enough money for nursing home care. That's the dilemma Steve Herzfeld faced. His solution? Outsource their care to India. There his mother gets daily massages, physical therapy and 24-help getting to the bathroom for about $15 a day! His dad, who has Alzheimers, has a full-time cook and personal assistant. And drugs are plentiful, costing less than 20% of their cost in the U.S.

The three have long-term visas that will allow them to stay through 2011.

Read this story by Laurie Goering, foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. (And weep for any cuts the paper's foreign bureaus will likely experience as good newspapers continue to take hits.)

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