Topic > Medication non-adherence habit: problems and...

Sometimes elderly people can't remember all the medicines, it's time to take the medicines and open a narrow bottle. Therefore, older adults need a packaging tool that promotes compliance, automatically dispenses appropriate medicine and reminds them to take the medicine on time, and is easy to use. Systems such as vending machines and e-pill medication organizers offer additional functionality to ensure administration of the right medications, the right dosage, and the right time for up to 28 days (Kim et al., 2015). Tools like e-pill are extremely helpful for seniors for medication compliance and it is also useful for long term treatments at home because this tool automatically dispenses an appropriate count of