My OH has 23 tablets a day and the pharmacy will not do blister packs for him - Im not sure why, but it might be because one of his tablets is a low dose antibiotic that changes every 2 months. I understand how easy it is to get confused.
I use two wallets, each containing 7 dossett daily boxes for a days worth of drugs (morning and evening) and fill them up once a week from the carrier containing all the tablets as dispensed by the pharmacy. I make sure I do it at a time when I wont get interrupted (in my case, when the carer is getting OH washed and dressed). I have a printed list of all the tablets and how many are taken morning and evening. I set this beside all the dossett boxes for the week and put a ruler under the first tablet on the list. I then put this tablet in the appropriate spaces for the whole week going down the seven boxes for each tablet if there are more than one a day. Then I put that box taken from the carrier separately, move the ruler down to the next tablet and repeat. At the end there should be no boxes left in the carrier. I have found the trick is to be organised and the repetitive activity has become a routine. I also have to do it without interruptions.
Wow, that's a lot of tablet sorting
@canary !
I can't help wondering how older people - even those without dementia - could be expected to deal with this if they have no one to help. And even when the tablets are in the right boxes, if there's any confusion about time or day of the week, the whole system breaks down.
I am reminded of the time - 50 years ago actually! - when my Nanna was taken into hospital suffering from various overdoses. (She probably had dementia but nothing diagnosed, as was often the case back then) My dad went to her house to collect all her pills and take them to the hospital, to try and work out which she'd taken/not taken. I went with him and there were 4 carrier bags full. It turned out many of her prescriptions were incorrect or duplicated, some things that should have been short term only she'd been on for years, etc, etc. It was a complete mess.