Medicine supply device for patient with dementia

a technology for supplying devices and patients, which is applied in the field of medicine supply devices for patients with dementia, can solve the problems of difficult for patients with dementia to relate the alarm to the operation of taking medicine, and the difficulty of taking medicine for people with memory or recognition, so as to achieve the effect of significantly reducing the burden on care givers or families

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-07-17
YAMAMOTO YUUGO
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[0020]As described above, according to this medicine supply device for a patient with dementia, the patient can take the medicine simply by a care giver's urging the patient to take the medicine on the phone. Not only a medical effect, but also a delay of progression of the level for care need can be achieved by the regular administration of the medicine in a proper quantity. Moreover, a burden imposed on a care giver or a family for taking medicine can be significantly reduced.

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Thus, the device is useful for a person who can recognize the presence of a medicine to be taken, but it is difficult for a person who has a disability in memory or recognition to take a medicine.
There is a device raising alarm by a sound, a light, or a vibration, but it is difficult for the patient with dementia to relate the alarm to the operation of taking a medicine.

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[0035]The medicine supply device is placed beside a telephone, and the timer is set so as to supply the medicine at six o'clock in the morning. At seven o'clock, the question whether the medicine exists on the tray in front of the elephant shaped medicine supply device is asked to the patient on the phone. If there is a medicine, it means the medicine supplied is not yet taken, the advice urging to put the medicine in the mouth to take is given to the patient. The conversation is carried out to check whether the medicine is taken by the change in the pronunciation of the patient.

[0036]2 months before using device, there were the cases of taking no medicine or taking three times of proper dose at once,. In addition, there was a case that the patient repeatedly takes the medicine assuming that the patient was urged to be take more medicine, when a call was received.

[0037]However, since this device has been used, there is no case of taking medicine repeatedly or forgetting taking the m...

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Abstract

A medicine supply device is capable of dispensing an appropriate dose of medicine even when used by for a patient with dementia living alone who is unaware of presence of medicine to be taken, by calling attention of the patient on a phone. The medicine supply device has an animal shape overall so that the patient can know immediately. The medicine dose in a PTP package is held individually between an open hole in the upper plate 6 having appropriate elasticity and a lower plate 8 having an outfall opening, the upper plate 6 is automatically rotated when a time becomes that set in a 24-hour time 4, and a medicine then is deliver to the outfall opening, thus a dose of a medicine is supplied to the medicine tray 16 by gravity.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to a medicine supply device for a patient with dementia who does not know the presence of medicine to be taken.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]In the case of general medicine cabinets and medicine supply devices, a medicine needs to be taken out by the operation of a handle or a lever (For example, JP-A-2006-187321, and JP-A-2005-270602, Japanese Utility Model Registration No. 3085734, and JP-A-2003-210551).[0005]Although there are some devices in which a medicine is automatically supplied by a timer, the intellectual operation such as a selection is required, as the plurality of medicines for morning, noon, evening, and before going to bed is supplied at the same time (For example, JP-A-2004-000489).[0006]Most of the devices using timer raise an alarm, and some are used for the purpose of recording, but most of them are used for a doctor to supervise the status of taking medic...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B65D83/00
CPCA61J7/0409
Inventor YAMAMOTO, YUUGO
Owner YAMAMOTO YUUGO
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