Transitioning from active duty to military retirement: Challenges impacting diabetes self-management

Abstract

Military retirement happens early in the lifespan presenting a unique transition that challenges chronic illness. The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that military retirees experience as they transition from active duty to military retirement that they perceive as inhibiting their ability to manage type 2 diabetes (T2DM) or pre-diabetes (preDM) and/or which increase their disease risk.

Document Details

• Document Type: Pub Defense Publication
• Publication Date: Dec 08, 2020
• Source ID: 10.1177/0017896920978675

Entities

People

• Carla L Fisher
• Christy J.w. Ledford
• Easton Wollney
• Paul F Crawford

Organizations

• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
• United States Department of Defense
• University of Florida

Tags

Readers

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