The purpose of this paper is to research the potential of the Myday Medication application. This program was designed and developed to remind patients with memory problems (i.e. Alzheimer’s patients) and their caregivers to take their medications and treatments at their specified times. Alzheimer’s disease causes dementia that leads to short-term memory loss and cognitive impairment. Patients in advanced stages forget how to perform bodily functions such as swallowing ultimately leading to death. It is essential for patients such as these to keep up with their medications. The importance of the research project lies in its ability to hold hands with both caregivers and many kinds of patients as they strive to remember the treatments which need to be administered correctly and consistently. The MyDay application provides an interface that allows users to create and maintain a personalized medication treatment file. The program prompts caregivers and patients to administer and or take daily medications and treatments as specified in the file. All users are able to run response reports based on dates to see how a patient responded to the prompts for a given day. The program includes an accompanying tutorial and easy to use instructions and it can send a cell phone text message to the caregiver if patients do not respond positively for a final prompt. Thirty nursing students were trained on the application and performed a thorough walk through examining it’s features. Afterwards they filled out a survey answering questions such as how did the program perform overall. The program achieved better than expected results, and provided valuable feedback for how to improve upon the current features. The paper shows that the MyDay application has the possibility of becoming a useful tool for the medical community.

Recommended Citation: Garriss P., Simmonds D., Kline D., Vetter R., Keith J., (2012). MyDay Medication Reminders . UNCW MS CSIS Proceedings. V. 6 , N. 10 .