It's said you need to walk a mile in another mans shoes. Of course economics and disability are inextricably linked; but particularly, when you're the one trying to adjust to it, maintain the mortgage and all the other normal outgoings!
Plus, pay for any additional imposts. Most people who are honest and wise enough to accept what they cannot change; and, without ever losing hope, find the wisdom and courage to change what they can, will adjust more easily? And the younger you are; the transition and the loss although always resented at first, is almost invariably easier to cope with over the longer term??
But a lot more needs to be done; particularly if it's only your body that's damaged. A universal disability scheme is long overdue and ought to be welcomed by all, who want to be seen as normal empathetic human beings. But that is only phase one!
Getting past the usual and often extremely offensive social stigmas and re-placing people back in the workforce; is arguably the very next step. We could do worse than start with the hidebound public service, which ought to have a mandate thrust upon it; to recruit at least 10-20% of its workforce, from among the disabled.
Some of us may even be considered clever and erudite enough to sit in several board rooms and or pick winners? Thereby guaranteeing our lost financial independence?
The govt currently gives away around 26 billion in so called welfare for the rich? They could do worse than re-prioritise some of this generosity; into rehabilitating and returning some of our more gifted thinkers, back into the workforce; from where they may well be, no longer entirely dependant on the goodwill of neighbours and fiends; or indeed, the public purse? Rhrosty.

"it is a radical misperception to assume that people with serious physiological and neurological disabilities have been disconnected from their personhood… the basic idea is simple - a rose bud which has taken a long time to bloom is still a rose"

Throughout my experience developing and teaching person centred active support, it beckers beyond belief how we are not able to see people abilities, their attributes, how they contribute to their community, their value if that person has a disability. Instead we see what they cannot do, we devalue them as people who can and do contribute to our society. We permit their loss of value in our society by doing this, we deny them personhood. I often wondered if this allows us to 'feel' better about how people with a disability are treated in Australia. Does it ease our conscience?