The Skyline725 blog has been running for about two years now. Here are a few stats.
- 57 subscribers to the blog receive emails when a new post goes up
- A total of 1098 posts have been uploaded to date. They are broken down by categories on the R side.
- There have been 5154 visitors to the blog with a total of 25,072 views
- The largest number of views was 230 in one day (compared to an average of about 35)
Folks ask me if this doesn’t take a lot of time. Not really. Maybe 30 minutes a day. That’s because a number of you send me interesting articles to post – thank you!
I’m always looking for more authors, so please contact me if interested.
You’ll note from the pages at the top that Gordon Gray keeps the Science/Tech area alive, and we try to post Opera happenings. Brief Bios will be updated as soon as it’s completed. It gets a lot of “hits” as does our wonderful Skyliner. Bill Calvin has been posting pictures of the “walls” going up around Skyline which are daunting. Still I could use more ideas for enhancing the blog. Help is always appreciated. After all this is YOUR blog!
And a former long term care ombudsman, having served the residents of Skyline’s assisted living, memory care and nursing home units, scandalizes the community by obliging you with Comments! While swelling the readership by also promoting this blog to other non-residents.
In fact it would be interesting to know who the non-resident readers are. A reason for participating, for this non-resident, is the absence of long term care Family Councils.
By federal and state law, you may know, residents in nursing homes may have “Representatives”. The representatives as well as any other family members and friends may form a Family Council. The facility must provide a private space for meetings and a staff liaison to assist if requested. The facility must respond to communications from the FC.
There is even a national Family Council blog which is, according to its hosts (professional ltc advocates), open to FC participants only. A few years ago, several participants began discussing the various uses readers might find for their blog posts. Any further such discussion was brought to a sudden halt by the hosts.
Why bother fulfilling a blog’s request for comments? Because each and every blog reader today will be incommunicado when this luxury fades. And what becomes of us tomorrow is decided by what we do today. Residents of long term care (and that includes home care) need Representatives. Residents of long term care have legislation written to protect them. The Residents’ Representatives have even less. We could do better.
Thanks, Jim!