Mornings are often hectic, especially when you’re preoccupied with making sure everyone else is fed and able to get out the door on time. If you’re anything like me, hectic mornings like those can cause you to forget about important morning routines like taking your meds.
But being preoccupied is no excuse to neglect your own health, so I came up with what I hope will be a simple solution for all of us!
The Medication Reminder Printable
This week’s download is a printable sign you can put up in your home to help remind you (or anyone else in your household) to take your daily medications. Whether you put it on the fridge, frame and hang it, or do something crafty with it, it’s sure to help you avoid those moments of forgetfulness.
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If you don’t take any daily medications yourself, you probably know someone who does. Printing out this reminder and putting it in an attractive frame would be a thoughtful gesture that says you care about the recipient and their wellbeing.
However you decide to use it, keep this cute memory-jogger somewhere you’ll see it every morning, and hopefully you won’t forget your meds ever again.
The printable was designed for letter-size paper, but you can easily change the size and scale settings when you print it to any size you’d like. Download the “Don’t Forget To Take Your Meds” printable below!
Medication Reminder Printable
This handy printable will help you and those you care about remember to take their daily medications.
Do you have any tips that help you remember to take your meds?
Visual and other reminders help me a lot. Hubs has a lot of meds, unfortunately, and his memory isn’t so good, so he was not compliant despite numerous reminders, visual cues, alarms, etc. He also has nerve damage in his hands and filling the monthly med organizers or getting meds directly from bottles was frustrating. All of that eventually led us to finding the Hero med dispenser. It has made all the difference for him. It is a large machine that dispenses pills into a cup on multiple schedules. It can also do just reminder notifications for anything not in the machine, such as items not in pill format, refrigerated, supplements not loaded in the machine, etc. It requires wifi/internet and has an app to program the schedules. Hubs handles it all himself but it also has a caregiver mode if that is needed. To refill it he just has to dump the entire contents of a new med bottle into a hopper in the machine. This beast of a machine is NOT CHEAP but has been totally worth it. We’ve had it several years and hubs is 99.9% compliant, and no longer frustrated with handling his meds. Search the ‘net for Hero Health or Hero Med Dispenser if interested. They also have a service to take over reordering your prescriptions for you, we don’t use that, just the machine. ***I am not affiliated, just a very happy customer.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I take 2 different meds in the morning. One I take as soon as I wake up, but the other one I need to wait about an hour and after I eat breakfast. I always leave my lamp on my nightstand on. If I don’t remember to take it after I eat, I walk into or past the bedroom, see the lamp on, and it reminds me, “Take your meds”. Then I can turn off my lamp.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I also have an app Medisafe that sends me reminders for morning and bedtime pills.
I use visual reminders like you describe, for lots of things. I suffer from “Out of Sight, Out of Mind” disease :-D The out of place visual cues help me a lot too. I also set alarms on my phone, but ofc those only help when the timing is predictable.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I’m going to print one for my mom. She can hang it on the fridge or wherever. She takes enough meds it should come in handy.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.the meds reminder will come in handy for me got a couple printed out to leave one in my bedroom when I get up the other near my chair where I sit in the morning.
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