Budget impact analysis of a Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) program for older people in Germany: a Markov model based on data from the LiFE-is-LiFE trial.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateEthical approval was obtained for both study sites: Heidelberg (document number Schwe2017 2/1–1) and Stuttgart (document number 723/2017BO2). All participants gave written informed consent prior to participation. The study is conforming to the respective policy and mandates of the Declaration of Helsinki. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding This work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant: 01GL1705A-D). The funding source takes no part in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, in the writing of the manuscript or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL."

"Trial registration The study was preregistered under underclinicaltrials.gov (identifier: NCT03462654) on 12th March 2018; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03462654."