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Elder-caregivers

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Ilsa

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Tue Jun 11, 2019, 08:43 PM Jun 2019

Sadly, my live-in mother-in-law's dementia is getting worse. [View all]

She takes lots of medicines (for hypertension, cholesterol, ASA, vitamin B, anxiety, and dementia), and about two years ago I started managing the weekly filling of her morning and evening pillbox. On rare occasions, she would forget to take her evening meds, so she would be confused the next day, but it was rare.

Over the last three months, she has been missing more of her evening doses, so my husband and I are checking her pillbox every day to keep her current. Today, I discovered that she no longer understands the SMTWTFS on the box, plus she is easily confused about day and date. So, it looks like we have to dose her now unless I can come up a simpler method. Any ideas?

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