Who we are

Quality of Life Depends on the Ability to Function

Beginning at about age 35, declines occur in functions that are essential for the activities of daily living. The AgeMeter uses physiological and mental age tests, including memory, reactions, hearing, agility, decision speed, and movement speed.

By measuring such biomarkers of aging and comparing scores to norms by age and sex, the AgeMeter determines a person’s functional age for the tests, as opposed to his or her chronological age, and validates whether a person an function at the age indicated by a biological age test.

Function declines proceed at different rates in different individuals. Genetic factors play a role, but so does environment, diet, and life style, providing evidence that intervention in the aging process is possible.

About Our Company

The AgeMeter® is a successor to the H-SCAN Functional Age Test, which was introduced in 1990.

The founder of Centers For Age Control Inc., the company behind the AgeMeter®, was a dealer and then a distributor of the H-SCAN in the 21st century until the H-SCAN was discontinued by the Hoch Company, the developer and manufacturer of the H-SCAN when the owner of that compamy retire.

Centers for Age Control is leveraging today’s most forward-looking technologies to bring Functional Age Testing and Functional Validation of Biological Age Tests into the forefront of health tech at a cost-effective price. While the H-SCAN sold for $23,750, the AgeMeter® is only a very tiny fraction of that.

Advisory Board

  • Dr. George Church, Science Advisor

    World Renowned Scientist; Heads lab with ~100 scientists as Genetics Prof. Also Health Sciences Prof.; Awards: National Academy of Sciences Member; Franklin Institute Award for For Development of DNA Sequencing Method (past awardees include Einstein, The Curies, Edison, Hawkings); TIME World’s 100 Most Influential People

  • Dr. Adrian Low, Business/Medical Advisor. Investor. Celebrity Doctor President

    Hong Kong Psychology Assn. VP, Hong Kong Society of Counselling & Psychology. Chartered Psychologist in British Psychological Society. Created Psychological Compass & Brain Reset Supplements. First Chinese Psychologist to do biofeedback stress research in major company. Raised stress research standards academically and practically.

  • Dr. Ronald Dunlap, MD, FACC. Medical Advisor

    Board Member & Former President of Massachusetts Medical Society which is Publisher of New England Journal of Medicine where he is Former Tech. Advisor) Tufts School of Medicine

  • Nicole Layne, Business Advisor

    B.A. Yale, MBA Wharton, Former Associate at Mckinsey & Company, Former Director of Enterprise Product & Experience Strategy at Home Depot.

Meet the Team

  • Elliott Small, Founder, President and CTO

    Harvard BA Biochemistry. 7 patents: Aging Reversal Methods & Compositions (4 issued), Rapid Battery Charging (3 issued). Chemist: Kraft Foods. Computer Coder.

  • Edward Layne, CMO (Chief Medical Officer). MD, SCM

    Harvard College, Tulane Medical School, Harvard Medical School Post-grad, Medical Director, Gastro and Nutritional Clinics, 3 locations in Atlanta, GA.

  • Sunny Clark, CITO

    Senior Software Engineer Consulting at Complex Nerve Inc. Many years of IT Experience with skills in nearly every aspect of information technologyDescription goes here

  • EJ Layne, COO

    Senior Program Manager, Microsoft (4 patents), BS/MS Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Joe Strickland, IT Advisory

    Technology Delivery Management Director, CCI, Atlanta, GA BS Computer Science, Morehouse College

History of the AgeMeter

The Agemeter is the successor to the H-SCAN Functional Age Test that began in 1990 and was discontinued when the inventor retired. When told about the H-SCAN by Centers For Age Control, the H-SCAN distributor, Dr. George Church said, “We’ve got to bring that H-SCAN back!” Centers for Age Control Inc followed up with development of the Agemeter®.

An early effort to understand biomarkers of aging and biomarker measurement technologies derived from a workshop that generated the article, “Biomarkers of aging: from primitive organisms to humans.” (Journals of Gerontology. Series A,. Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 2004 Jun;59(6):B560-7.) After the discussion of the various potential biochemical biomarkers of aging, the article states the practical necessity for functional biomarkers of aging:

“In the absence of a more complete understanding of the mechanism of aging, clinicians would like to have age-related biomarkers that have adequate predictive value to provide qualified information to their patients to help improve organ-specific function throughout the life cycle and reduce unnecessary morbidity and premature mortality. These biomarkers might be more than disease risk factors and represent individual indicators of functional status. Clinicians might prefer a panel of functional biomarkers of aging that relate to health span.

“Such a set of putative functional biomarkers of aging could be measured in a large group of aging adults at an age where functional loss is known to occur most rapidly, such as in the 60 to 70 age group, but it would also be useful to have data on younger adults… The optimal goal would be to obtain a panel of functional biomarkers of aging usable for developing personalized medicine or other interventions that effectively reduce morbidity and improve organ-specific function, thereby delaying the necessity for costly hospitalization or social support of the aging population. At least one such attempt to do this has already been reported [Hochschild R. Can an index of aging be constructed for evaluating treatments to retard aging rates? A 2,462 person study. J Gerontol Biol Sci. 1990;45:B187-B214.])”

In the cited study, Richard Hochschild, a physiologist educated at Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at Berkeley (MA) suggested 12 candidate functional biomarkers of aging that led to the development of the H-SCAN Functional Age Test (now the AgeMeter). Unlike blood and other cognitive tests, whose relevance is often based on theory, it is more evident that changes in memory and other cognitive functions, reaction time, hearing, touch, vision, muscle movement speed, etc. are part of the aging process. What is universally recognized as aging, apart from appearance, is the loss of ability to function.