Protected: Seminar 5: Technology to Help Avoid Medication Adherence Problems
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Impact Theme: Medication Management and Adherence
Medication Management & Adherence is an ongoing theme in our Longevity Explorer discussions.
We are exploring the existing solutions, and what our explorers see as the problems with those solutions. We are also exploring in depth how our older adult explorers manage their own medications, and a number of very different approaches have emerged.
We hope innovators will find our insights helpful as they design new products and services.
What I do about pill organization and consistent maintenance.
I would like to share what I do about pill organization and consistent maintenance. I started out using the "day of the week" organizers pictured, which are sold in drugstores. That worked for a while, but I found that my memory of what medicines I take began fading because each pill was no longer identified, … Read more
Best Automatic Pill Dispenser for You
Caption: Left: MedaCube; Right: Hero; Top middle: MedMinder; Bottom middle: GMS. It is too simplistic to talk of the “best automatic pill dispenser“. But it is definitely appropriate to talk about the “best medication dispenser for a specific individual or life situation“. Different Life Situations Need Different Pill Dispensers This is Part 2 of … Read more
Automatic Pill Dispenser Evaluations: Hands-on
Caption: Variety of pill dispensers and smart pill boxes under evaluation. | Back row L-R: Pria, Hero, MedaCube, Philips, Tabsafe, Livi. Front row L-R: GMS, MedMinder, MedReady, CompuMed. When a person starts having trouble adhering to the medication routine prescribed by their doctor — or when they or their caregiver or spouse start finding … Read more
CompuMed Medication Dispenser
The CompuMed is designed to help you improve your adherence to the medication regimen prescribed by your healthcare providers. It does that by helping to organize your medication; and remind you which pills to take and when to take them.
Tabsafe Medication Dispenser
The Tabsafe is designed to help you improve your adherence to the medication regimen prescribed by your healthcare providers. It does that by helping to organize your medication; and remind you which pills to take and when to take them.
MedReady Medication Dispenser
The MedReady Medication Dispenser is designed to help you improve your adherence to the medication regimen prescribed by your healthcare providers. It does that by helping to organize your medication; and remind you which pills to take and when to take them.
GMS Automatic Pill Dispenser
The GMS (Group Medical Supply) Pill Dispenser is designed to help you improve your adherence to the medication regimen prescribed by your healthcare providers. It does that by helping to organize your medication; and remind you which pills to take and when to take them.
Black & Decker, Pria
The Pria “Smart Healthcare Companion” is a swiss army knife type of product — incorporating an automatic pill dispenser; an artifical intelligence that can talk to you and answer questions; a “check in” capability to engage with you on a daily basis; and the ability to hold video chats with your friends, family, and caregivers.
Philips Lifeline, Medication Dispenser
The Philips Medication Dispenser is designed to help you improve your adherence to the medication regimen prescribed by your healthcare providers.