Familiar Voice

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

I will worry if my elderly takes the right medication daily.

In response to "How do you support your family members who require regular consumption of different medications?"

I will remind them to take their medication.

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Easy instructions

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

messy, might forget

In response to "How do you support your family members who require regular consumption of different medications?"

pack in medicine boxes

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Unique, distinct color and shape

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

troubled it can get really hard to keep track and is an additional stressor

In response to "How do you support your family members who require regular consumption of different medications?"

remind them put it at an easily accessible place

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Max 1 intake a day

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

Neutral

In response to "How do you support your family members who require regular consumption of different medications?"

Reminders

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Easy instructions

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

Worried

In response to "How do you support your family members who require regular consumption of different medications?"

Set an alarm for them

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Max 1 intake a day

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

It is not easy to remember the different medications required at different timing intervals, before/after food

In response to "How do you support your family members who require regular consumption of different medications?"

Place and label in a box

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Unique, distinct color and shape

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

worried as dementia patients have the tendency of forgetting thus might not remember to take their medications

In response to "How do you support your family members who require regular consumption of different medications?"

i would need to remind them via either physically ensuring their take their medications or through phone calls if i cannot be there physically

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Max 1 intake a day

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

I will definitely feel scare for them. Coz there has to be someone all the time to give them the medicines and what not.

In response to "How do you support your family members who require regular consumption of different medications?"

I will send them reminders or be with them when the time comes so that I can administer those medicines.

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Easy instructions

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

I would feel worried as there will be many things to take note of with multiple medications. It would be dangerous if medicine is consumed wrongly.

In response to "How do you support your family members who require regular consumption of different medications?"

I make it simpler for them to remember by highlighting the characteristics of the different medicine (eg shape) and associating with different containers.

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Max 1 intake a day

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

it’s very frustrating for them to have to constantly take multiple medications since it requires them to remember to take them. and w many medications thr will b many different side effects that can affect their daily lives.

In response to "How do you support your family members who require regular consumption of different medications?"

i bought pill organisers from the nearby pharmacy and sort out the medications into the respective compartments (morning and night) and set alarms to remind my family member to eat their medications.

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Unique, distinct color and shape

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

You must be there to monitor.

In response to "How do you support your family members who require regular consumption of different medications?"

Giving reminders.

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Max 1 intake a day

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

I feel worried that they might forget.

In response to "How do you support your family members who require regular consumption of different medications?"

Calling them every morning

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Max 1 intake a day

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

Anxious about them, if they are able follow the medications timely

In response to "How do you support your family members who require regular consumption of different medications?"

Buy the daily pill box to allocate the pills to take for the week ahead

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Easy instructions

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

Worried.

In response to "How do you support your family members who require regular consumption of different medications?"

Provide care and support, provide more attention.

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Max 1 intake a day

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

Like it\'s a chore

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Pre-pack the pills by day

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Easy instructions

In response to "As a caregiver or family member, how do you feel when your senior or someone with dementia is prescribed multiple medications for regular consumption?"

Questioning what\'s the point of medication if it doesn\'t help; worrying what happens if they forget to take them.

In response to "How do you support your family members who require regular consumption of different medications?"

Pre-pack them according to medication that needs to be taken alongside meals of the day.

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Unique, distinct color and shape

In response to "How Can We Improve?"

Can have a voice reminder alert / video call from family member to watch them consume their medication daily.

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a lot of competitors in the market. please research on them and understand why the technology has yet to take off despite being spoken about for years

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This is good especially the reminder to the caregiver, it should be he inverse though reminding when the elderly has forgotten the medicine but for really serious elderly I doubt this would be effective. maybe the milder cases that\'s why a max once a day is easier but drugs are rarely like that . and urm just a random thought how many of us lose the idea of an alarm over time?

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This is a novel idea. What does the team envision as the value add of this proposal beyond setting regular alarms on a smartphone and changing the alarm tone to a recorded voice saying \"take your medication\" in the preferred language or dialect?

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as dementia patients have the tendency to forget, would it be possible that they might not recognise the voice despite it being their loved ones

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You guys could look at the possibility of incorporating this feature into already existing medicine reminder boxes. So you can maybe partner with companies that sell these boxes and maybe create and app that promotes both the box and your app with your features. This way the company will reap something fro you guys and you will gain more attention as well. It might be good for your marketing.

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I am not sure how the voice would be played but what I visualise from the description is a physical product such as a speaker to play the voice. If this is so, I think important considerations are portability (when the patient goes out) and the possibility that the product itself may be misplaced. An additional consideration might be the profile of the patient. People who have chronic diseases may have jobs and this would affect the implementation of the solution. Some might be uncomfortable to let others know about their medical conditions.

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since this is targetted at ppl w dementia, they may forget how the familiar voice sounds and this can actually backfire since they are less likely to comply w a voice that they do not recognise at that moment/voice from a phone. wld b gd to target this at caregivers to give them regular reminders to give medications since they will be physically present and is usually someone that they will remember and r comfy w. the idea can also include an option for caregivers to off the reminder for when they choose to give the medication themselves so the family member won’t end up taking it again.

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I like the idea of having a familiar voice, having a real time sync on both the patient and caregiver side will be crucial to ensure the caregiver is able to closely monitor whether the patient has taken her/his meds in real time.

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-nil- I like the idea, maybe it could be a device that is wearable.

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Daily reminders can be monotonous and you tend to disregard them after a while. Perhaps building in gamification or something fun like, a riddle or a joke at each reminder?