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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
Breadfish, that really seems like it was/is a terrible hassle!
I can't help but wonder how some elderly people manage. Or people with mental illness symptoms (that are alone) that make concentration difficult. I know some have visiting nurse services or even live in assisted housing, but some don't.
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Around here there's something my phamacy calls the Medicaton Roll (at my mother's job they call it Baxter, somewhere else they called it ATC sachets). It's basically a roll of small sachets containing pills with a date and a time (and your personalia, and a list of contents) on it. So if it says 13-12-2017 9.00 you know you'd have to take the contents of that sachet in 6 minutes.
I've accidentally taken too many meds, or the wrong meds, before. I'm very careful about filling my pill organizer - if my concentration is bad it might take 2 hours, othetwise about 20 minutes - but I've taken morning meds at night and the other way around (which made me reallly drowsy, slept half the morning or afternoon whenever that happened). Or accidentally swallowed 2 compartments instead of 1 and stuff.