Anticipatory Grief

Chronic grief can be identified as lasting for a prolonged period of time and without any significant reduction in the emotional distress experienced by the bereaved. Chronic grief does not seem to end or change it severity with the passage of time.
Grief is not something that must occur after death. As in the case with extended illness, disability, severe injury, terminal illness, or dementia people can experience what it known as anticipatory grief. Anticipatory grief relates to the individual knowing the outcome (or