Buy MedReady P1600 Medication Dispenser with Flashing LightMedReady P1600 Medication Dispenser with Flashing Light Product Description:
- Assists anyone who needs help with medication compliance
- Organize your daily medications in MedReady's 28 compartments
- Locking feature limits the chance of an overdose
- Flashes a light and beeps a high-frequency alarm as a reminder to take medication
- Keeps medications in place even if the unit is turned upside down
Product Description
Sometimes taking several medications causes confusion with scheduling and accurate doses. Enter the MedReady Automatic Pill Dispenser. The dispenser assists anyone who needs help with medication compliance, particularly those with hearing or memory loss. Organize your daily medications in MedReady's 28 compartments and then set the clock for medication reminder times, for either once a day or up to four times per day. When it's time to take your medications, the system turns the dial and unlocks the medication door. This locking feature limits the chance of an overdose. The system also beeps a high-frequency alarm and flashes a light as a reminder that it's time to take the medication. MODEL 1600FL: For those who have difficulty hearing a buzzer or alarm, we developed the Medready 1600FL, a unit with a red Flashing red Light to alert the patient that it is time to take their medication. MedReady 1600 FL-Flashing Light Package comes complete with A/C Adapter, Rechargeable Battery, Medication Tray, and Blue Locking Lid. FEATURES: You can program the alarm to sound for 30, 45, 60 or 250 minutes. It turns off once the medication door is opened. Pill compartment divisions keep medications in place even if the unit is turned upside down. Early Dosage feature allows taking dosage with a caregiver.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
provided a solution for forgetful Mom
By L. Mills
My mother was having trouble remembering whether or not she had taken her daily medications. This was the most reasonably-priced automated medication dispenser I could find, and it has worked flawlessly for about two months now. There are several features that are very useful. First, the flashing red light is a great supplement to the audible alarm for my mother, who is hard of hearing. I like that the MedReady is plugged in and only relies on batteries if there is a power outage. Also, because the key has to be in the locked position to take it out, there is no mistaking that the unit is properly locked after it is filled.The instructions for setting the unit up could be clearer, but I manged to get it right after a few trys. It also took a few days for my Mom to get used to taking her pills out of the unit, but now she has acclimated and is doing fine with it. I would highly recommend MedReady if you are concerned about making sure the proper medications are available at the proper time to a loved one when you can't be there to monitor them.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Med Ready Box better than standard pharmacy boxes but not great
By J. Bohringer
The boxes have taken a LONG time to set up and get right -- and I have an RN doing this! I thought they would only allow a window of time to take meds and then close / lock till next dose. My parents both have dementia, and if they choose to ignore the alarm (which they do) or are gone when the dosage is available, they can end up taking one 'old' dose, and then another dose right after if the timing is ready for the next one. If the goal is to keep patients from overdosing, then I think this item fails. It is better than the standard 'pop top' dispensers you can by at pharmacies, but not really serving the purpose it is promoted to do. If they could figure out a programming method to only allow the meds to be available for say, 30 minutes after the set dosage time, this would be a better tool for medication management.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.This has been a lifesaver!
By Wildlife Watcher
We had started off using the Sunday thru Saturday plastic pill containers and I would call Mom every day when it was time to take her pills, but as her disease worsened she had trouble distinguising which days were the correct days or I found she was taking them when I hadn't called. That's when I searched for a better way and found the MedReady pill dispenser and it has been a life saver! You can program it just like an alarm clock to dispense pills up to 4 times a day. It features an alarm that goes off when it's time to take the pills--the ring time of the alarm is adjustable from a few minutes to a couple of hours. I have my mothers set to ring as long as possible so if she's walking the dog or out to dinner late with a friend it will still be ringing when she gets home and she'll take them then. **BUT, it is important to know how often a person has to take their pills and how much time frame needs to be between those doses when deciding on how long to let it ring. The pill dispenser only moves to the next pills to be dispensed at the given alarm times. If a person took their pills late and then the alarm was set to go off within a short period of time--it is possible that they could double dose their pills. But chances are if the alarm isn't sounding they aren't going to look under the white door where the pills are-so when the next pill time came up the alarm would sound, the pill dispensing tray would move to the next dosage to be given. This would mean that they would miss a dose(which is much better than dbl dosing) and those pills that weren't taken would now be locked inside the dispenser and you would be able to see them when you came to refill it.Currently my mother only has to take pills twice a day -In the morning & in the evening so her pill dispenser will hold 2 weeks worth of pills(this will vary for you depending on how many times a day pills have to be dispensed).The individual pill compartment on the tray holds allot of pills (we do 14 morning pills of varying sizes) and the sides are sloped so it's easy to get the pills out. It has a large digital clock display on the front, and beneath it a white slide up door where the pills are underneath. To turn the alarm off you simply slide the white door all the way up which takes no effort at all to do. It should be plugged in at all times but has a battery backup if the power should go out.I bought an extra tray with plastic lid so I could just swap out the trays when it was time for a refill. I called their customer service # once and immediately got through to a real English speaking person who answered my questions.The only things I can think of that would improve this product would be if a person didn't take their meds after a certain period of time the tray would go BACK one so that the pill spot under the white door would be empty so there would be no chance of double dosing. And if you could set the alarms for certain days of the week as well rather than just times.It was easy for my mom to learn how to use it and she's done great with the past 3 months we've used it!
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