Best Tech For Aging Parents.
Growing Old with Grace and Gadgets.

By the time a person reaches age 70, she’s taking an average of 12 medications. The inability to take them unsupervised accounts for up to 40 percent of nursing home admissions.

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e-pill MedTime STATION

According to Medco Health Solutions, some seniors even take as many as 20 or more pills per day. That’s a lot of medication that can get misplaced, forgotten, or mixed up even for a spry young mind.

The Pill Problem

The good news is that tech has stepped in with a solution in the form of automatic pill reminders. A company named E-pill (e-pill medication Reminders, www.epill.com , 1-800-549-0095) offers several medication-monitoring gadgets such as the E-pill STATION ('pill service station') which stores a full month of medication and sounds an alarm when it’s time to take them. There’s also the E-pill Multiple Alarm Plus, which can be programmed with over 40 different alarms and even reminds you if you’ve missed a dosage. For as little as $30 you can buy the Multi-Alarm TimeCap, which fits onto a standard pill bottle and tells you the last time the medications were taken, complete with an alarm to keep track of forgotten doses.

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Pill service station: e-pill MedTime STATION SKU 996024 / UPC 837066002415

Daily pill dispenser: e-pill Multi-Alarm PLUS SKU 759021 / UPC 837066000213

Pill bottle alarm: e-pill Multi-Alarm TimeCap SKU 941457 / UPC 837066000039

Alarm watch / medical alert for women: CADEX 12 Alarm WATCH and Medical ALERT SKU 941321 / UPC 837066000343

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