Live Free Home Health Care, LLC. - Bristol, New Hampshire

Medication Management

MedReady Pill Dispenser

Why is a pill dispenser so important?

Our MedReady pill dispenser was designed to help persons managing multiple prescriptions adhere more easily to their doctor’s prescription regimen. Our easy-to-use pill dispensers can release up to 4 doses per day. A client, caregiver, or medical professional can load the medications, set the clock, program the alarm, close and lock the lid. When the time comes to take your next dose, the alarm will sound and the dose will rotate into position. The alarm stops when the dose is taken out. Our MedReady pill dispensers can also be monitored by our 24-hour Care Center. If your unit is monitored and you have not taken your medication within 30 minutes of the alarm sounding, the Care Center will attempt to contact you to see if you are ok and remind you to take your medication.

Automatic Pill Dispenser

• Almost 30% of all hospital admissions for people over the age of 65 are directly attributable to medication non-adherence.
• 125,000 people die each year from non-adherence, twice the number killed in automobile accidents.
• Poor adherence with medication regiments costs society $150 billion per year.
• Nearly $48 billion in annual costs result from unnecessary medication-induced hospitalization.
• Approximately 40% of people entering nursing homes do so because they are unable to self-medicate in their own homes.
• About one-half of the 1.8 billion prescriptions dispensed annually are not taken correctly, contributing to prolonged or additional illnesses.
• At the present time, more than 7 million households have an unpaid "care-giver" who is providing daily assistance to a family member age 50 or older.

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Medication Management Assessment Tool (PDF)

 

Archives of Internal Medicine 1990; 150:841-845

A.Anderson, Update on Patient Non-adherence

NPC Report

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Medications and the Elderly, Ch.4 pp 67-68, 75

Family Circle 6/25/91, pp. 46