Opportunities and Challenges for Health-Promoting Interventions for Older Adults: A Focus Group Study with Professionals in Municipal Health and Social Care.

This is a qualitative focus-group study of professionals' views, not a test of whether any health-promoting intervention works. Only 22 participants from seven municipalities in northern Sweden were included, so the themes may not transfer to other organizations or countries. Recruitment depended on municipality managers forwarding the invitation, and the number of eligible staff contacted was not known. The authors had prior involvement in developing the intervention used as the discussion case, and the first author had worked in municipal healthcare, which may have shaped the questions and interpretation. Participants were grouped by profession, which may have reduced discussion of how different roles and organizational levels interact. Power dynamics and the mix of digital and physical focus groups may have affected what people said.

Do not read professionals' support for digital group interventions as evidence that these interventions improve older adults' health. The study asked about organizational conditions and did not test an intervention outcome.