{"id":2039,"date":"2022-12-05T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:29:49","slug":"not-taking-meds-as-directed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/not-taking-meds-as-directed\/","title":{"rendered":"Not taking meds as directed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SCFhandsWithPills_AdobeStock_68585627-700x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2040 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SCFhandsWithPills_AdobeStock_68585627-700x400-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SCFhandsWithPills_AdobeStock_68585627-700x400-1-300x171.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 700px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 700\/400;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Taking the right medicines at the right time is extremely important to health management. But 75%\u00ad\u00ad\u201396% of older adults admit that they frequently make mistakes with their medication. Is your loved one among them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many reasons why a person might not take their medicines as directed. &#8220;Forgetting&#8221; is one of the most common. But difficulty opening the bottle or reading the label can also result in medication errors. A pillbox can help, but choose carefully:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Are there enough compartments? Are they big enough to hold all the pills?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Are the compartment labels large enough to read (day of the week and time of day)?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How snug are the lids? If dropped, might one pop open and the pills go flying?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How finger-friendly are the lids? If your loved one has arthritis, a push-button lid may be better than one that requires prying to open.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What about traveling? Would the pillbox be easy to take on a trip? What about pills needed if dining away from home? (Also consider adding a small pill dispenser to their key chain. These make emergency medicines, such as nitroglycerin, handy for your relative whenever and wherever.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As for reminders, some pillboxes come with automated alerts. But this assumes your loved one is near the box when it&#8217;s time to take the medicine. Consider instead setting reminders on their phone or smartwatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One pillbox alternative is to work with a pharmacy that sends pills prepackaged with each packet stating, in large letters, its contents and when (day, date, time) to take the pills. If your relative&#8217;s medications do not change often, this can be a fine solution. Plus, the packets are good for travel (out for the day or for several days at a time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Are you worried about medication management?<\/strong> The more medicines your loved one takes, the more crucial this issue. As the greater Cleveland experts in family caregiving, we at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/\">Careplan Care Managers<\/a><\/strong> understand that medication management is one of your bigger concerns. You don&#8217;t have to do this alone. Give us a call at 440.476.9534.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking the right medicines at the right time is extremely important to health management. But 75%\u00ad\u00ad\u201396% of older adults admit that they frequently make mistakes with their medication. Is your loved one among them? There are many reasons why a person might not take their medicines as directed. &#8220;Forgetting&#8221; is one of the most common&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careplangcm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}