Seniors are blogging — and reaping the benefits
Seniors aren’t blogging or spending time on social networking sites? Come on!
Seniors who were interviewed by the AP said that senior blogs offer many benefits for older adults:
• Senior blogs help older adults keep their minds sharp.
• Senior blogs keep the authors up-to-date on current events.
• Senior blogs are a great way to meet people around the world.
• It’s easy to share life experiences, wisdom, and information through senior blogs.
• In some cases, senior blogs give the authors a bit of fame and recognition for their efforts.
Think about how residents in a CCRC could paint a “day-in-the-life” of a community by posting a blog about their daily life. The right person would need to be selected to share their activities, but this could be a great way to really personalize a web site and draw more interest to a senior living community by bringing users back again and again to read the blog.
Check out some of these senior blogs to see what seniors are doing online…
http://seniorwriter.blogspot.com/
http://www.timegoesby.net/
http://mymomsblog.blogspot.com/
Thanks for mentioning one of my blogs! I’m anxious to spread the word about the advantages of wrting and reading blogs for my fellow seniors. I’ll be moving to a new senior residence, the Clare at Water Tower in Chicago, around the end of the year, so my reports on senior living will continue from there.