TY - JOUR AB - Individual budgets allow the service user to take control and make decisions about the care that they receive. Manchester was one of 13 local authority development sites chosen by the Department of Health to trial individual budgets. The pilot has ended but the scheme remains strong. Here, Caroline Marsh describes how one individual's life has been transformed through the power of choice. VL - 12 IS - 4 SN - 1366-3666 DO - 10.1108/13663666200800069 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/13663666200800069 AU - Marsh Caroline PY - 2008 Y1 - 2008/01/01 TI - Individual budgets T2 - Working with Older People PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 35 EP - 37 Y2 - 2024/04/27 ER -