Is there a gadget to help Mom keep better track of her medications?
To answer your question, yes, a gadget for medication management exists, but they range in how comprehensive a problem they are trying to solve. It sounds like your mother would not benefit from a simple reminder call, but might do better with a pre-loaded canister of pills like her current weekly pill box. The difference would be the automatic reminder aspect (blink, beep, alert). There are three approaches that are worth considering -- one is a pill container which could be used just for her thyroid medication called GlowCaps from Vitality -- available through Walgreens (learn more at http://www.rxvitality.com/glowcaps_howglowcapswork.html).
Pill canisters with automated reminder capability include MedMinder (https://www.medminder.com/), TabSafe (http://www.tabsafe.com/), and MedSignals, where the pill canister can be detached, making it portable (https://www.medsignals.com/default.aspx).
Most important with electronic pill canisters: careful loading of the doses and configuring the alerting list of contacts if an individual like your mom does NOT take a specific dose.
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