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📣 shipman05

Best way to track medications for elderly family member?


I have an elderly family member who has a large number of medications. They seem to frequently lose track of what meds they're taking.

Worse, it seems that doctors often prescribe new medications without a full understanding of what meds are already being used and what possible interactions might be.

I've tried a shared Google Doc, but struggle to get all parties involved to keep it updated. Are there any good, dedicated apps for this sort of thing (that aren't just data mining operations)? My initial searching yielded a lot of junk.

What do y'all use for similar situations?


  👤 myls2go Accepted Answer ✓
I use a button reminder for my daily pills and for my epileptic dog.

Been using it over the last three weeks and not one missed dose/double dose because it’s right next to the medicine cabinet, chirps at us when it’s time, and logs presses to Google Sheets.Both my partner and I have access to the chart so we can easily see when a dose was given by the other + the physical form of a button that site right next to the pills helps. We don’t always have our phones on us at home.