Survey Says

SO, I went to Alma Via old folks home to get a better handle on how to improve prescription packaging and labels by making them more inclusive. Because of the nature of my project my survey was mostly qualitative instead of quantitative. Here where my survey questions.

•How many prescription medications do you take?

•Where do you get your prescriptions?

•How often (per day) do you use prescriptions?

•How do you identify your different medications?

•Where do you keep your medication?

•Have you ever had a mishap with your medication? What happened?

•What is the most important information on your prescription label?

•How do you get your directions for taking your prescription?

•What is the hardest part, opening, remembering, understanding or identifying, your prescriptions?

•What is the form of your prescription packaging? What do you like or dislike about it?

I went with Prof. Chu's DAI 400 class, and only had the opportunity to speak to 2 people, and durning our conversations we often got off track. I found it more helpful to just talk with them about their prescriptions and how they use them.

The big problems I discovered, besides the obvious label readability, happened when the seniors had to take multiple medications. They trouble telling which ones where which, and because they couldn't read the labels,  sometimes didn't know how to take them.