Resources available to retired athletes include crisis-prevention interventions, career, financial, and health management for example; and crisis-coping interventions, such as counselling and therapy (Reints, 2011). Another example is from Danish and colleagues called ‘life development interventions’ or ‘LDIs. Life Development Interventions place great emphasis on continually growing and developing throughout life, as well as offering athletes strategies to support their decisions, both before and during any kind of transition, and counselling strategies to help them cope after the transition is complete (Danish, Petitpas, & Hale, 1995). Based on the model created by Kuettel, Boyle, and Schmid (2017), the quality of transition can be estimated by ensuring that there are few emotional, social, health/body, financial, and vocational difficulties, as well as ensuring that the duration of the transition is short, and that the athlete is satisfied with the decision to transition out of competition (Kuettel, Boyle, & Scmid, 2017).
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Furthermore, athletes should prepare well ahead of time for this situation, maybe even years before they plan on retiring, to guarantee that they will be socially, emotionally, financially, vocationally, and physically ready to terminate their career as a professional athlete. With that in mind, athletes may need assistance with planning their retirement to make sure that everything is in order when the time comes, expected or not, for them to retire from elite
Furthermore, athletes should prepare well ahead of time for this situation, maybe even years before they plan on retiring, to guarantee that they will be socially, emotionally, financially, vocationally, and physically ready to terminate their career as a professional athlete. With that in mind, athletes may need assistance with planning their retirement to make sure that everything is in order when the time comes, expected or not, for them to retire from elite