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Tips & Tools

Congratulations on making the decision to improve how you take your medications! This section is intended to provide you with helpful tips and specific tools to help you succeed with your goals.

Tools & Strategies to improve how you take your medications:

Following is a list of common strategies to improve how you take your medications.

I will decrease the times each week when I miss my medications

I will buy a weekly pill box to put my medications in so that I can keep track of when I take my medications

I will work with my health care team to make my medications more affordable

I will ask my spouse, family member, or friend to help me to remember to take my medications

I will keep my medications in a place where I can remember to take them

I will discuss any concerns I have about this medication with my health care team

Tips for improving how you take your medications: What to do when…

Whenever I go on vacation or travel, I either forget to bring my medications or I forget to take them!

My spouse says I should get a Medical Alert tag to wear and I don’t want one

I think that I took my medications, but sometimes I’m not sure

I forgot to take a dose of my medication

I don’t like to take pills every day