"We're just winging it". Identifying targets for intervention to improve the provision of hearing support for residents living with dementia in long-term care: an interview study with care staff.

Only 10 staff from eight homes were interviewed, so the findings cannot show how common these views are across long-term care homes. Participants were recruited from people who had expressed interest in a follow-up interview, so they may have been more motivated to take part than staff who did not respond. The study reports staff views about barriers and facilitators, not resident outcomes. It identifies possible intervention targets, but the paper does not test them. Data collection stopped after 10 participants based on the authors’ judgement that no new information was emerging.

Funding was from the Alzheimer’s Society, UK; the National Institute for Health Research Manchester Biomedical Research Centre; the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre; the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme; and the Global Brain Health Institute. The supplied text lists funding sources but gives no competing-interest declaration.

Do not conclude that training, hearing champions, or care-home audiology appointments improve hearing support. This study only reports staff views and suggested targets; it did not test these interventions or measure resident outcomes.