Chronic sorrow

Chronic grief is a normal response to lost, and can be persistant in parents of sick children, or acute when a dear person is lost. In this paper, the theoretical model of chronic grief is presented, a model that gives an alternative way to observe and react to experience of pain (grief and sorrow). While treating the medical condition of the patients, it is important to pay attention to his emotional condition, too. The concept of loneliness is connected to the theory oft he chronic grief, because the key component oft he loneliness and chronic grief is a lost. The theory of the chronic grief gives the guidelines to understanding and work with individuals who survived the important loss. Situation and circumstances that cause chronic grief and loneliness are identified and methods of management of chronic grief, considered as useful are described in this paper. The research on chronic grief includes qualitative methods, such as interviews face-to-face, or by phone, Burke/NCRCS questionnaire on chronic gried, instrument for evaluation of chronic grief by Kendall (Kendall Chronic Sorrow Instrument, KCSI), which has 18 parts and is designed to observe and measure the experience of chronic grief. The results have demonstrated that KCSI is valid and reliable, and adds to quantitative research on chronic grief. Empirical dana give means to ensure measurability of the defined atributes of loneliness.Modernization of society, technical and biomedical achievements, faster life style, loss of communication lead to loneliness and alienation. Future research should be focused on finding efficient internal methods of chronic grief management.