Advice Please

[wjm]

Hi,

I am currently caring for my Father who has PD. It is my first experience and my brothers and sisters and I now realise that we need to take charge and help him out.
I am trying to locate a medication reminder that will beep at set times every day, as well as hold his meds and is also on a cord that he can hang around his neck. He used to have one and it worked well, until it broke. I have now got him another meds reminder but it is big and bulky and therefore harder for him to have on him all the time.
I am in Australia so it will have to be something that I can buy over the internet.

Any tips on this will be appreciated

Wendy

[grldnklly]

Hi,
I was carer for my father, but he died in October. We used an old mobile telephone as a timer. Most mobile phones have a facility for taking a note of tasks you need to do at different times of the day and an alarm goes off to remind you to do it. Once you enter the details of your father's medication times you can set for repeat and it will go off every day. The alarm will still go off if the phone is off. The mobile phone is easy carried about and is discrete. I also seperated my fathers tablets for the day into an empty tablet jar which he was able to slip into his pocket. It also meant that we were able to check if he had taken all the tablets he should have taken. My father would have slept a lot and at times he wasn't sure whether or not he had taken a tablet.
Hope this helps you.
God bless
Geraldine

[wjm]

Thank you Geraldine.

[heather]

Hi,
I was carer for my father, but he died in October. We used an old mobile telephone as a timer. Most mobile phones have a facility for taking a note of tasks you need to do at different times of the day and an alarm goes off to remind you to do it. Once you enter the details of your father's medication times you can set for repeat and it will go off every day. The alarm will still go off if the phone is off. The mobile phone is easy carried about and is discrete. I also seperated my fathers tablets for the day into an empty tablet jar which he was able to slip into his pocket. It also meant that we were able to check if he had taken all the tablets he should have taken. My father would have slept a lot and at times he wasn't sure whether or not he had taken a tablet.
Hope this helps you.
God bless
Geraldine


Hi Geraldine
hope all is well with you
That is such a good simple idea, thank you for sharing

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