One popular theme New Year’s Resolutions are centered around is the desire to lose weight. Every new year sees gym memberships spike, with many people looking at the newest, ‘best’ diet to help them lose weight and become healthier. It’s all too easy to fall into the trap set by one of those popular “fad…
Many of the worst falls seniors experience happen at home. Nearly 1 in 5 of these falls results in serious injuries like broken bones or a head injury. Even worse, around 47% of seniors who fall cannot get up without assistance! Falls at home can be prevented—you just need to add a few inexpensive products…
Deciding whether you should look into lift chairs or not can be a tough decision. You probably have a few questions if you have thought about power lift recliners or lift chairs at all. Are lift chairs just for people with bad knees? I have people to help me get up, does this make a…
Christmas is over and the snow is finally falling in 2019, which means it’s time to start ordering gift items for Christmas again. As Oswald’s gift and toy buyer I often feel I live and breathe Christmas 11 months out of the year. The actual Christmas season is just the culmination of all my buying!…
Canes are the oldest piece of medical equipment. A cane is a walking stick, used to help with balance and stability due to injury or age. If canes have been around for so long, why is it still so hard to pick out the right one? The main reason canes are ‘hard’ to pick out…
When my Great Grandfather Harold Kester ran the pharmacy back in the 1950s, there were about 10,000[1] people in living in Naperville. Residents had three pharmacy choices: Oswald’s, Albrecht’s or Naperville Pharmacy. If you were new to town, you most likely chose where to get your prescriptions filled through word-of-mouth. Outside of conversation, perhaps you’d…
One-stop shopping has become a staple of American life. Big box stores like Walmart, Walgreens and CVS offer huge inventories so you only need to make one stop. No matter how big the box stores get, however, they can’t have everything. A great example is big box stores having small inventories of post-op or post-surgery…