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Sonja Miskulin, a wheelchair-bound former translator suffering from dementia, right, celebrates her 94th birthday with her daughter Ilona von Haldenwang, at the Polish nursing home for the elderly in Szklarska Poreba, Poland, on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013.The Grandma export trend has set hands wringing in Germany, where Munich's leading newspaper denounced it as "gerontologic colonialism" and compared it to nations exporting their trash. Photographer: Bartek Sadowski/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Sonja Miskulin, a wheelchair-bound former translator suffering from dementia, right, celebrates her 94th birthday with her daughter Ilona von Haldenwang, at the Polish nursing home for the elderly in Szklarska Poreba, Poland, on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013.The Grandma export trend has set hands wringing in Germany, where Munich's leading newspaper denounced it as "gerontologic colonialism" and compared it to nations exporting their trash. Photographer: Bartek Sadowski/Bloomberg via Getty Images