Niall: Routines with multiple medicines – Orderly strategies to support medication regimens
Listen to patients and health professionals speak about their experience with taking multiple medicines.
Niall
Male
Age at interview: 45
Number of medicines: 7
Cultural background: British (Caucasian)
Niall has a very precise procedure for removing his medicines from the packet, counting them and taking them to avoid making mistakes.
Like I said, the only one that's a problem is the Lexapro and the Diamicron, because they're physically similar, but that's why I sort of do it from one hand to the other, so I'll start with all of them here and, as I empty them out into a little dish, as I've done it, I put it over here, so I know which ones I've already done. I mean, as I said, because these things are all so different, with the exception of two of them, there's only two of them where there's a danger of that misconfusion and with the metformin, there's a potential when they changed the formulation, but as I said, the scale of the tablet is really quite different, between the different strengths.
The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.