Ask HN: What is the best way to setup medicine reminders for my dad?

Re:Ask HN: What is the best way to setup medicine reminders ... by smt88 on Sunday December 08, 2019 @09:08AM (#21735936)

Could you attach a paper calendar and a pen to his fridge, and then put the pills into a pill box with a container for every day of the month?

He can check off each day on the paper calendar after he takes his pills.

If his calendar gets out of sync with his pill box, it's easy to re-sync. There's no single database.

I assume that while he probably looks at his phone every day, he definitely looks at his fridge many times a day.

If you want to get really high tech, you could add a $20 Wyze came and hang it near his pill box so you can check up on him.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best way to setup medicine reminders ... by jakobegger on Sunday December 08, 2019 @09:22AM (#21735997)

We tried the calendar to check off days for my son, and that didn't work. We'd check off days and then forget the pills, or give him the pills and not check the dates.

Pillbox with pills for every day of the week works better.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best way to setup medicine reminders ... by smt88 on Monday December 09, 2019 @03:37PM (#21746261)

Maybe throw in a once-daily, low-tech alarm, and you have both the timely reminder and the unambiguous record.

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