Physical activity and associated medical cost savings among at-risk older adults participating a community-based health & wellness program

• Samuel D. Towne Jr. ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: towne@tamhsc.edu

  Affiliations Health Promotion & Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Southwest Rural Health Research Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7310-5837

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• Yajuan Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Shinduk Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Matthew Lee Smith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Health Promotion and Behavior, College of Public Health, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Gang Han,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Cindy Quinn,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Yuxian Du,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Mark Benden,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Marcia G. Ory

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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