Just a policy borrowed from her time, it doesn't mean her ghost is controlling it, any more than Goebbels was running the Brexit campaign, there was just a lot of borrowing of his methods.
I think this is a good place to mention that the Thatcher practice of defunding and crippling an entity to ensure it fails, to make privatisation more palatable, has not gone away.
Lucky for her she had family to help out, I don't think whether someone gets help or not, should just be down to whether they have willing and able family, or not.