Pill reminder

A pill reminder is any device that reminds users to take medications. Traditional pill reminders are pill containers with electric timers attached, which can be preset for certain times of the day to set off an alarm. More sophisticated pill reminders can also detect when they have been opened, and therefore when the user is away during the time they were supposed to take their medication, they will be reminded of it when they return. This reminder can be in the form of a light, which also helps for deaf or hearing-impaired users.

A new take on the pill reminder is as a cellphone app that uses the cellphone's alarm system to remind the owner to take the medication. These programs can keep track of missed doses as well. It is just not smartphones that do this; the Pantech Breeze was a flip phone offered by AT&T in the United States from 2009 to 2013, which supported this feature.