MED-Q Digital Pill Box Organizer 2 Beep Reminder LED Alert WHITE

This thing could be a lifesaver. Forgetting to take pill is not a good thing. It will remind you of your daily and nightly regimen at whatever time you set it for. And if you’re out to eat and come home after time to take your medicine this thing actually goes off every 30 minutes so that you don’t forget. Read more

I help care for a family member with mild dementia who lives mostly independently. This item has been a game changer in helping ensure they take medicine on time, every time. This person has a smart phone, but a phone alarm doesn’t guide them to the pills they need to take, and person is easily distracted between location of phone and location of pills. I just fill it once a week and confirm that nothing was left behind, which it rarely is unless pill is something like vitamin D that can stick to the inside of container. Has been using ~9 months and we just added a second one so we now have 4x/day. If I could change one thing, I’d make each individual pill container 50% larger. This ability to take meds on time has contributed to zero ER visits since we got it. Previously, ER visit every 4 to 6 months. Worth the cost, for sure. Read more

Needs are not the same for everyone, so please recognize that in my review. My mother is a technophobe who would never be able to set this up, which is neither hard nor easy, but some may find it tedious. I didn't want my mother to do that, so I give it a pass. You have two daily alarms that can both be disabled but you can't change the style of alarm or sound, nor can you limit it to anything other than all seven days. The daily pill boxes are approximately 1" x 1/2" x 1" with slightly less space due to the angled top but more than good enough for a couple of vitamins and several tablets. The pill box is well designed to open without removing due to a lower tab but also still remains easy to remove; However, the labeled boxes can be put back in the wrong linear order required for the alarm if the user is subject to confusion and can't id the labels. As mentioned, the alarm and sound won't be seen or heard if it gets under bed clothes or the like. It's also very lightweight and easy to move or knock off a table. Mounting is not practical without work as the speaker and battery compartment are underneath. Still, kept on a table, it will be heard and the box in the slot for the current alarm will glow red. The largest button "Next Alarm" is pushed once to disable the sound and once again to disable the light (glow) after which it won't alert again until the next alarm. If an alarm is not answered, it will sound for 5 minutes every 30 minutes , 2 minutes at 100%, 2 minutes at 150%, 1 minute at 200%. There is a sleep mode but thankfully it's hard to mistakenly activate, requiring holding a button for 20 seconds which my mother will never do. Along the same lines, the initial programming is hard enough that she is unlikely to do it by mistake. The unit displays a large print current time and slightly smaller next alarm time, but the current day is small, there is no date and the display is LCD sans backlight, making hard to see in a darkened room with reduced vision. Having said all this, one might think I am going to give it a negative review, but I am not. It's many levels of helpful beyond a simple dispenser and I think of it as very good for their first iteration. For their next iteration, I would like to see them address the above and a couple of more things. One, make a full day, date and time display. This won't add to the function per say but will act as a bonus making it easier for elderly users suffering confusion to remain centered, especially if back lit. Two, separate programming and responding even more so than it is so responders can't accidentally do the former. A pin code may help. Still, on this front, it's already pretty good so don't take that as a major issue. I am adding a footnote: Per their website, they have a 71% uptake rate and the alarm was chosen as is after trying several models to increase this rate. When it ran for extended periods, some users would remove the batteries or otherwise disable to unit rather than take their medicine. That sounds like my mom, and I am glad they did that. Read more

Setting up the alarm on this unit (one of it biggest selling points) is at the very least, extremely cumbersome. Those who engineered this protocol seriously need a wake-up call to reality. The included instructions are foggy at best. Going back to the previous tray, since this one is useless. Read more

Beep is not annoying in pitch and the beeps will continue to reminder user to take pills and which day’s pills to take until user interacts with unit. Once you set the alert time, the unit will beep for next 5 minutes. Then stop until 25 minutes later when the alert resumes. So if alert is set for 5 pm for example, the unit will beep and flash a red light inside the current day’s pull box until 5:05 pm. Ideally the alert will be heard and pulls will be consumed within that first alert time. Then user hits ‘next alert’ button to end alert for the day and the unit will advance to following day’s schedule of 5 pm. In other words, when the ‘next alert’ button is pressed, the unit will not chime again until the next day at preset time (5 pm) Pls note that the user can hit the ‘next alert’ button without taking the pills. This unit doesn’t know if pills are actually removed from daily box or not. The cool part is If the user misses the 5 pm alert in this example, the unit will beep again at 5:30 pm until 5:35pm. This pattern of every 30 minutes continues (6 pm, 6:30 pm, 7:00 pm, etc) until hopefully the alert is heard, the pills are taken and ‘next alert’ button is pressed. Then the next alert will chime the next day at the scheduled time of 5:00 pm. Read more

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Decent med planner but difficulty in setting the timer accurately. Read more

My aunt couldn’t remember to take her meds but now she looks for the beep and goes “oh yea! I gotta take my meds”. Works great! Read more