"chronic need" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is commonly used to refer to a pressing, ongoing need, a need that persists over a long period of time. For example, you could say, "The city is facing a chronic need for affordable housing."
And we have a chronic need for teachers at all levels.
The orphan grew into a fitfully depressive man in chronic need of distraction from his torments.
All these politicians accept in private that the law is in chronic need of reform.
For the serious cowards among us, the chronic need to conquer fear can get tedious.
At the very least, Riis would still see a striking gap between the extent of chronic need and the resources available to dispel it.
The chronic need for last-minute solutions can be an indication that a system isn't working, said Ms. Gladky, managing director of the Cypress Group, which helps companies improve their work processes.
Dr. Peterson helped to establish a community care coordinator team to reach out to the elderly and others with chronic needs in a rural community in Vermont.
We endorse the manners blitzkrieg, but also hope the Mayor focuses on the continuing chronic needs like finding more jobs in poorer areas, soothing ethnic bruises in the neighborhoods and fixing the collapsing schools.
Current experimental methods to bypass the BBB, including pharmacologic modification and direct transcranial catheter implantation, are expensive, are associated with significant complications, and cannot be feasibly scaled up to meet the chronic needs of a large, aging patient population.
"You've got a whole substantial group being left to struggle on alone, which seems like a false economy," says Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK. "Without being given early help, people are more likely to develop chronic needs and to need more intensive support, at a greater cost to taxpayers".
Considerable reorganization of the delivery of services to older adults with chronic needs may be required.
