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Medication errors, such as taking too much or too little of a medication or missing doses, can have serious medical consequences,” says Amanda Lambert, owner of Lambert Care Management in Salt Lake City and author of Aging with Care: Your Guide to Hiring and Managing Caregivers at Home. “This is especially true of pain and sleep medications, which can increase fall risk if taken incorrectly,” she says. A pill organizer can help minimize medication errors. A pill organizer with extra-large storage boxes can accommodate large pills, such as fish oil or vitamin supplements, or several pills. Extra-large boxes can also allow easier access to pills for someone with arthritis or another condition that makes gripping pills from a small compartment difficult. Easy-Open Design

Safe and Sound Health’s 7-day pillbox has three compartments for taking medication or vitamins in the morning, at noon and in the evening. Each of the daily sections of this weekly pillbox can be removed and has three compartments for medication that need to be taken regularly throughout the day. A plastic weekly pill container is the most basic of pill organizers, with seven boxes clearly marked for each day of the week. There are also weekly and monthly organizers with more than one row for multiple doses and different colors, symbols or other markings to designate morning, afternoon or evening pills. Extra-Large Storage Compartments Stays closed during transit: Digging around a bag for spilled pills is no one’s idea of fun, so we looked for pill boxes that stayed shut even when jostled around.

I am a huge fan of the simple 7-day pill organizers. I suggest reloading them on Sunday evenings and getting your pills straight for the following week. Take it one week at a time, and keep your pill organizer in the same location in your home, in a spot you see every day." —Alaina Ross, RN with 10 years of experience as a PACU nurse

Organise and store your medication in the three daily compartments, depending on how much medication you need throughout the day As you age, it’s common to add pills to your daily medication regimen. For example, you might take one for high blood pressure, one for high cholesterol or any number of others. But managing multiple doses can be challenging and, in some cases, even dangerous—between 7,000 and 9,000 people die from medication management errors in the U.S. each year, and hundreds of thousands more experience adverse reactions or complications [1] Tariq R, Vashisht R, Sinha A, Scherbak Y. Medication Dispensing Errors and Prevention. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2021. . To remove the daily sections from Safe and Sound Health’s Three-Times Daily 7 day Pillbox with Braille:

But the best tool you can have in your kit is a pill organizer. These boxes not only keep everything in one place, but you’ll also be able to tell, at a glance, whether you’ve taken your medication that day. The printing on some pill containers tends to fade or wear off over time. Keep this in mind. You may find the printing wears out before the container itself does.