Welcome to Caregiver Corner by Boomer's newest blogger, Jennifer Beach, LSW, MA, C-SWCM. Jennifer established Advocate for Elders in Rocky River in 2010. In this debut blog entry, Jennifer discusses the challenges families face as they anticipate the holidays — apart instead of together — during the ongoing pandemic.

The single most important benefit of digital literacy is the communication options it provides for maintaining emotional connectedness despite physical distancing.

Retiring? Understanding how your future retirement might affect your spouse is important. Let the Social Security Administration help you untangle the options associated with spouse's benefits.

Dad knew he couldn’t just mandate upstanding moral character; he had to model it in order for us kids to follow his example. He would go out of his way to practice kindness. My dad demonstrated that the spirit of giving should be a natural outflow of everyday life. If you would like to join together with like-minded people to spread kindness, consider joining From Cleveland to Kindland. This citywide initiative inspires the Cleveland area to be a community of kindness and a model for the rest of the nation to follow.

Usually, the career continuum begins as a teenager, often with hobbies and interests. All these experiences and education define your career continuum because everything is connected. Interconnected experiences enable you to leverage all your talent and experience into a seamless career continuum where everything is connected.

Many hearing aids now automatically “stream” telephone sound from either an Android or iPhone smartphone directly to a hearing aid, with the transmitted sound customized to the person’s hearing loss. This generally provides improved perception of phone sound, better clarity if you are receiving a call in a noisy place, and a hands-free experience.