The phrase "decline quality of life" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors or situations that negatively impact an individual's or community's overall well-being.
Example: "The recent economic downturn has led to a decline in quality of life for many families in the area."
Alternatives: "deteriorate quality of life" or "reduce quality of life."
Fear of falling and associated avoidance of activity are common among older people and may have negative consequences in terms of functional decline, quality of life and institutionalisation.
Future studies should address different test criteria as validity, reliability, and also statistics concerning the predictive value with regard to single outcome parameters (as e.g. functional decline, quality of life).
This is important, as while fear of falling in itself may be an unwelcome anxiety for an older person, it is the related avoidance of activity that is arguably more significant in terms of its effect on social engagement, functional decline, quality of life, and further falls, particularly when this avoidance is severe.
It is arguable, even probable, that these developments have contributed to a rising, rather than a declining, quality of life for most Americans.
After all, what do we get for all this military leadership and bravado but mounting debt, many casualties, international ridicule and a declining quality of life at home?
Because the labor market finally seemed to be recovering, Mr. Kerry had shifted his criticism from the absolute number of new jobs to the broader if more nebulous idea of a "middle-class squeeze" and a declining quality of life.
Opportunities for many but the declining quality of life for others, led to increasing conflict, with riots in Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol and elsewhere and industrial conflict including the miners' strike of 1984.
Nikolai V. Sergeyev, chairman of the city's election commission, agreed that economic hardship and a declining quality of life had contributed to the protest vote, but he cited other factors too.
Despite an intensifying housing shortage, highway traffic problems and declining quality of life in Silicon Valley, it still seems like an earthly paradise compared with the rapidly industrializing Beijing, with its chronic pollution.
Election results, whether in North Rhine-Westphalia or across France and the Netherlands, reveal electorates who have lost faith in their leaders, who are anxious about declining quality of life, who feel extraordinarily vulnerable to foreign competition -- from the Chinese, the Americans, the Turks, even the Polish plumbers.
