While adjusting to life with a disability after an accident is a common experience, advocates say Australians who acquire a disability later in life are hampered by a rule barring over 65s joining the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Featured:
Peter Wilcox, lives with polio
Ross Joyce, CEO of the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Dr Bronwyn Morkham, National Director of the Young People in Nursing Homes National Alliance

Reporter: Max Chalmers