The Arlington Study of Healthy Aging (ASHA) is focused on understanding mechanisms causing functional decline with age. 

What is ASHA?

The Arlington Study of Healthy Aging (ASHA) is a single-site, multiethnic community cohort study that will use advanced imaging, genetics and multi-omics, exercise science, neuroscience and remote monitoring to investigate age-related declines in health and mitigate disease impact on older adults. 

The goals of the Arlington Study of Healthy Aging (ASHA) study are to:

• Examine how aging impacts heart, brain and muscle health and to identify factors that promote healthy aging.
• Determine how social, physical, economic, psychological and behavioral factors affect aging.
• Evaluate how ethnicity/race and sex affect the aging processes.
• Train the next generation of health professionals and research scientists in impactful research that will advance scientific understanding to prevent, slow down or stop aging-associated issues in older adults.