The HAI Study
What is HAI?
A longitudinal study of older adults (age 55+) designed to capture healthy aging across time. This includes a yearly assessment of your holistic health capacity (physical, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, social), the results of which you will receive in your yearly report, complete with actionable recommendations to improve your healthy aging trajectory.
The specific aims of the HSL Healthy Aging Initiative are to:
Develop a meaningful, brief evaluation of health capacity that can be repeated annually, turn into actionable suggestions for the individual, and captures validated measures of function across multiple key domains of healthy aging.
Identify multiple factors and individual predictors of life-long health and well-being, including those that can modify disease/disability
Your Involvement Includes:
A phone call to determine eligibility.
Surveys completed over the phone or at home on your computer. These surveys should take less than half an hour to complete. Surveys include questions related to your background, lifestyle, mental health, medical history, advance care plans, and activities of daily living.
A single, yearly, one-on-one assessment at a convenient location. The in-person assessment will include measures of cognitive function, walking, blood pressure and pulse, height and weight, vision, hearing, and grip strength. This assessment is expected to take less than 45 minutes to complete.
The Healthy Aging Initiative's yearly assessments allow us to follow your health and progress over time with a particular focus on cognition, lifestyle, balance and mobility, and physical functioning. We hope that you will join us by participating in this study and becoming a champion of healthy aging.
