Care Control Revolution: UK moves away from state control of care decisions to provide direct cash benefits to elderly and disabled for care costs—why not parents? The Health Minister calls this a “radical transfer of power from the state to the public” and speaks about the elderly getting “self-determination and maximum control over their own lives.”
Dec 10, 2007. BBC News – article (web): “Elderly to get personal care cash“
Telegraph Elderly set free, but children shackled (cat link)