Nancy: Routines with multiple medicines – Orderly strategies to support medication regimens
Listen to patients and health professionals speak about their experience with taking multiple medicines.
Nancy
Female
Age at interview: 82
Number of medicines: 16
Cultural background: Australian/Italian/English
Nancy finds her medication regimen easy, as it works into her day and she can take one at different times of the day.
It's not a problem. I have a routine, and in the morning, I get up, make myself a coffee. Prior to all of that, if I wake up at 2 o'clock in the morning or 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock, I get up and take my thyroid tablet and go back to bed. Then, when I get up, I make my coffee and then I go through the rigmarole of this … counting out my tablets, and I know when I've reached my cortisone that that is number six, and I have 10 there. That's the way that one works, and the other … my night-time one, I have six.
The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.