Sorry, but I think this disgusting. If the man couldn't care for his parents because it was too much of a burden for his life - well fine, OK, I can understand that. However, the money aspect of this makes no sense - morally. If his parents had less than $2,000 left and put their Social Security payments into a "Miller Trust" they'd be eligible for Medicaid payments to the nursing home, and Herzfeld could locate them nearby so he could visit them. None of HIS financial resources would be needed to pay for their housing, drugs or care.
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 pair now bank $1,000 a month of their $3,000 Social Security payment.
Here you go - the SOB is more interested in getting an inheritance than in being near his parents in their time of gravest need. What a caring, loving son (hawk, spit).
Either they severely mistreated him as a child, or he got an extra helping of the extremely self-centered, spoiled baby-boomer gene. I vote for the latter. This guy makes me sick.
Read the article. He moved to India with them.
He moved to INDIA with his parents.. he is there for their time of need. He didn’t just ship them over there and stayed here.
The article says he moved to India with his parents.
“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 like bike rides to the grocery and strolls in the botanical gardens with his father.”
Read the article. The son moved to India with his parents.
I wonder how much the fact that both parents had Parkinson's played into his decision? When patients reach a certain stage they don't know or care where they are or who visits them.
I could never do what he did, because I would know.