It can be a bit delicate to ask a furniture shopper: “Oh, sir, um, maybe, ah, you’d like to see something a bit, hmmm, sturdier?” We are, as a people, as a sitting-in-chairs public, big. Bigger than ...

A common mistake with furnishings in a communal environment is to purchase beds, chairs, tables and couches in one universal size. Residents in congregate care facilities are individuals and some have ...