OT: pill sorters (was OT: Possible wireless phone problem :-)

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walter D Vaughan Jr" <wvaughan at steelerubber.com>

> I do wish the guy on John Stewart the other day would have been able to
> demonstrate the pill bottle that spoke to you when it was time for you to
> take your pills. From my experience with dealing with the aged, it was not
> forgetting to take pills, but them thinking they had not taken them.
> Later-rinse-repeat. A pill bottle that does not open and says, "you don't
> need to take this again until breakfast tomorrow" probably would save more
> lives (or rather keep people from an early one way visit to the funeral
> home).

And this is precisely why 28 compartment pill sorters exist.

At that point, you only have to be able to figure out what day, and which 
meal, and you take everything in that compartment.  That's *substantially*
easier not to screw up.

Trust me.

Cheers,
-- jra
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