Telephones are available with an amplified ringer, visual flashing ringer and/or amplified speech which may help if you have hearing loss. Many phones are compatible with hearing aids. If your keysafe is provided by your local council, they will often arrange for its fitting. If you buy your own and you do not know someone who could fit it for you, you may find that your local AgeUK have a handyman service which can help for a small fee. We take care of your medication management for you and deliver either 28 or 56 days' worth of dosette boxes to you (depending on your prescription). Many people who are on several medications find it difficult to always get the right tablets at the right times. To fix this, they will often buy a plastic tablet box and organise and pop their own pills into the correct time slots. The requirements and wishes of everyone involved, particularly the service user and the carer, need to be respected and every effort needs to be made to ensure all parties understand how the equipment and service will work. Particular concerns can include:

Our pill boxes are different from traditional 7 day pill boxes. With traditional pill boxes, you need to organise your own medication every week. Our pill boxes contain a roll of 28 to 56 (1 or 2 months supply of medication) easy to open pouches. So if you take your medication 3 times daily, you will have 3 pouches a day from the pill box and each pouch will contain your tablets for that exact time of day. How can I register? These terms are often used interchangeably and often mean the same thing. They are simply containers that allow you to organise your tablets into time slots, so you can easily take the correct medication for each day. What happens if I have pain killers I only take when needed? These will automatically sound an alarm in your home and send an alarm call to your monitoring centre if it detects smoke. The monitoring centre can then alert the fire brigade. These alarms may be appropriate if you would find it difficult to get out of your home promptly, or might not remember what the smoke alarm was for.Anyone with a regular medication regimen knows the frustration of finding the best pill organizer for their needs—and one that isn’t totally blah to look at day after day, dose after dose. Maybe you take daily multivitamins or birth control pills, or maybe you’re on a more intense schedule that requires multiple doses a day. Whatever the case, there are plenty of pill boxes and dispensers out there that are as pretty as they are practical.

A timer can be used to remind a person of the required cooking time. Some are mechanical, some digital. A few are a combination of the two. A mechanical timer, which might be more familiar and easier for older people to use, stops when the spring has wound down. An electronic timer might be more difficult to set but may sound for longer, or stop and then sound again after a short interval. Some also provide a visual cue of the time left. Your living arrangements, family support and the needs of any carer/s. Their perspectives, personal fears, anxieties and agendas may need resolving as may those of any professionals involved. Gas alarms can also be linked to telecare alarm systems. These may be appropriate for individuals who live on their own and may not remember what the gas alarm is for if it goes off. Organizers that come with limited sections and force you to mix multiple pills together can undermine the purpose of a pillbox. The most helpful organizers allow you to dissect and separate your medication based on time, day, and week.

Whether you take one tablet a day or multiple, you could organise your medication on a daily basis with a pill organiser box. At Complete Care Shop, we have a wide range of models and designs for you to choose from that allow you to stay on top of your medication, or help you manage someone in your care. Variety of pill organisers Yes. If you are eligible for dosette boxes, we will also deliver any other medication you need alongside it. For example, your inhalers or creams. Do you put painkillers in my dosette box? These can be very large, often take up a significant amount of space, and cumbersome. Monthly plastic pill boxes are rare, and even larger and heavier to carry around. With our monthly service, however, the design allows you to take out just whatever you need for any given day, or week, and place the pouches neatly in your bag. Most local authorities have a community equipment service which is used by both health and social services. Equipment is generally issued based on an assessment of your need. There may also be eligibility criteria. For simple bits of equipment you may be interviewed over the telephone. For more complex equipment an assessor will need to visit your home. They may ask you to try an activity to see how and why you are finding it difficult. This will indicate to them the most appropriate equipment to meet your needs. The assessor should also be able to provide you with relevant information and advice, or direct you to suitable organisations/services in your area.

Familiarity with an environment contributes towards a person feeling secure and confident. However, over a period of time people often accumulate a lot of clutter that can increase risk. By simplifying and organising your belongings, the home can become a much easier place to live independently. For a start keep regularly used items close to hand and remove items that are no longer used. Keep essential things where they can be seen to act as a visual prompt – for example medication and house keys. Basic tips include: Yes. For patients prescribed 4 or more NHS prescription items, we can make and deliver a dosette box if you choose this option. How do you use a dosette box? The boxes come in a range of complexity. Some just provide for a single day’s medication, others take a full week’s supply of tablets with days of the week clearly labelled. Some allow for multiple doses each day throughout a week. The nature of your disability, for example is it progressive, or do your needs fluctuate with 'good' and 'bad' days. How might technology help with this?

Opening the door to strangers can be risky. A door viewer, a chain or intercom (see below) can provide a way of identifying the caller before the door is opened fully. Memory prompt sensor devices that give a recorded warning could be triggered as you approach the door from inside. For example, it could automatically remind you: 'Put your safety chain on before you open your door to a caller'. That assistive technologies, including telecare, may be used to do tasks an individual is still able to do for themselves. This may contribute to them losing these skills sooner than would otherwise have been the case. Times of the day and days of the week are labelled on the dosette box. You simply need to find the day and time and push the tablets out of the 'blister'. You will then have your medication in your hand, ready to take! Can you deliver other medication? Not all of our products are eligible for VAT relief, so we are obliged to charge VAT for those products even after you complete this form.