The Center for Human Aging and Performance is a new initiative by Maragin Health Foundation focused on measuring, understanding, and improving functional aging. Aging is not defined by time alone. Two people may both be 80 years old, but one may walk independently, think clearly, and live actively, while another struggles with mobility, strength, and daily function.

CHAP was created to answer this simple but important question. Rather than focusing only on disease or chronological age, CHAP focuses on function: how well people move, think, recover, remain independent, and maintain quality of life.

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Standardized Scoring for Functional Aging

Modern healthcare is very good at diagnosing diseases. But aging is more than a list of diagnoses. A person may have controlled blood pressure, normal lab values, and no major illness, yet still be losing strength, balance, and independence. Today, there is no widely accepted standard for measuring overall functional aging. CHAP aims to fill this gap.

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Five Domains of Functional Aging

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A Practical Framework for Measuring Health

CHAP is developing a Functional Aging Assessment system, not to reduce aging to a single number, but to create a clear and useful profile of functional health.

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Building the Scientific Foundation

• Define the major domains of functional aging
• Develop standardized assessment methods
• Create scoring systems and reference ranges
• Establish population-based percentile rankings
• Build research collaborations
• Publish scientific findings
• Validate CHAP scores against real-world outcomes
• Support research in frailty, fall risk, and rehabilitation