A medication support apparatus, comprising: a medication instruction information acquisition unit that acquires medication instruction information including medicine information indicating a packaged medicine and user information indicating a user who takes the medicine; a medicine package holding unit that holds a medicine package in which the medicine is packaged; a user checking unit that checks whether or not a user corresponds to the user information; a medicine package providing unit that takes out the medicine package corresponding to the checked user from the medicine package holding unit; a medicine package checking unit that checks whether or not the medicine package or the medicine in the medicine package corresponds to the medicine information; an action recognition unit that recognizes an action of the user; and a medication determination unit that determines whether or not medication has been performed according to the medication instruction information based on the medication instruction information, a checking result of the user checking unit, a checking result of the medicine package checking unit, and a recognition result of the action recognition unit; characterized in that the action recognition unit recognizes the action of the user through an image obtained by imaging the user or interaction with the user; the medication instruction information indicates a time to take the medicine as medication time information associated with a meal time of the user and indicating a correspondence relationship between a meal eating action and a medication action; the action recognition unit recognizes an eating action and a medication action of the user; and the medication determination unit determines whether or not the correspondence relationship between the meal eating action and the medication action recognized by the action recognition unit is the same as the medication time information in the medication instruction information based on the medication time information and a recognition result of the eating action and the medication action. a medication instruction information acquisition unit that acquires medication instruction information including medicine information indicating a packaged medicine and user information indicating a user who takes the medicine; a medicine package holding unit that holds a medicine package in which the medicine is packaged; a user checking unit that checks whether or not a user corresponds to the user information; a medicine package providing unit that takes out the medicine package corresponding to the checked user from the medicine package holding unit; a medicine package checking unit that checks whether or not the medicine package or the medicine in the medicine package corresponds to the medicine information; an action recognition unit that recognizes an action of the user; and a medication determination unit that determines whether or not medication has been performed according to the medication instruction information based on the medication instruction information, a checking result of the user checking unit, a checking result of the medicine package checking unit, and a recognition result of the action recognition unit; characterized in that the action recognition unit recognizes the action of the user through an image obtained by imaging the user or interaction with the user; the medication instruction information indicates a time to take the medicine as medication time information associated with a meal time of the user and indicating a correspondence relationship between a meal eating action and a medication action; the action recognition unit recognizes an eating action and a medication action of the user; and the medication determination unit determines whether or not the correspondence relationship between the meal eating action and the medication action recognized by the action recognition unit is the same as the medication time information in the medication instruction information based on the medication time information and a recognition result of the eating action and the medication action.