Attractive design, but not designed for everyone
I bought three different kinds of 7 day / 4 times of day med organizers for my folks, and this was one of them. We kept this one, but I'm still not certain it's the best one for my folks' situation. (If I'd been able to find the EZY-Dose 4 a day / Weekly in Large, which NOW Amazon has, that would have been a serious contender. We'd found the medium but its compartments were too small.)<br /><br />Pros:<br /><br />- The pill compartments are good-sized and can hold Dad's two "horse pills" in one slot. The dividers can be rearranged, too, to make bigger slots (leaving fewer times per day).<br /><br />- You can take out the pill bays to take with you if you won't be home when it's time for pills, and you're not stuck carrying the whole shebang.<br /><br />- It has an attractive design that doesn't scream "pills!"<br /><br />- It is so much easier to fill than the kind with individually hinged lids. Take off their lids, and plop plop plop!<br /><br />Cons:<br /><br />- The lid of the carrier case that holds the 7 individual pill bays is colored plastic, as are the lids of the individual pill bays. That means if you have the case closed, you're looking through two layers of colored plastic to see if you've taken your pills. If you order online where you're taking a chance on the color you get, you risk getting the smokey grey. With that color, it's going to be harder to see whether the pills were taken without lifting the carrier case lid, because the two layers of colored plastic are hard to see through. (Having just had it fall out of the cabinet, I'm glad the lid was there -- the bays would have popped open if they hadn't been in a case.) The picture shown for the product on Amazon showing the aqua one shows aqua's sheerness pretty accurately. I've seen aqua, fluorescent yellow, and smokey grey in person, and the first two are very easy to see through.<br /><br />- If you're buying this product for a senior or someone with less manual dexterity, it may be too easy to accidentally uncover too much of a slot and dump out pills from another time frame. I told my mom to try to uncover only half the slot she needed so she wouldn't accidentally get pills from the next time slot.<br /><br />- If you're buying this for a senior or someone with less mental dexterity, the lack of labelling may be confusing. I wish they'd provided labels to stick in the bays to help with when pills get taken. I lined the bottoms of the bays with strips of papers on which I'd written the times each set gets taken.
Rating: 4 stars