Tag: Adherence

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22 August 2019 / / TravelHealth

Traveling is both a great joy and a significant stressor. When travelling for business, your mind is on your work. When travelling for pleasure, you have the chance to get out and explore a new or well-loved part of the world, your mind is going to focus on your itinerary, tour destinations, and next meal. And that’s how traveling should be! Still, there are a lot of essential things you need to keep track of while you are traveling, and taking care of yourself should always be a priority. One of the most important things to keep track of is your medicine. To make it easy, we always recommend using a travel pill case.

26 February 2019 / / HealthTech

Medication and supplements do no one any good just sitting in a bottle, and yet research and experience tells us that it’s all too easy to simply forget to take our pills. Fortunately, there are some simple and inexpensive/free tools available to help anyone improve their medication and supplements adherence.

03 September 2018 / / HealthTech

It’s crunch time. You and your team are all working late from home to get this super important proposal done on time. You’ve lost count of how many coffees you’ve had today, now you’re running on soda and popcorn. Finally you’re done, attach draft “FINAL_FINAL_2”, send email, and now it’s time for a bit of sleep before tomorrow’s meeting. Then it dawns on you - you have to take your thyroid medication, but you just wolfed down a whole bag of popcorn, and you can’t take your medication immediately after food. Looks like bedtime will have to wait.

If only you had used Intrepid Pillbox, with some scheduling magic.

26 June 2018 / / HealthTech

Adhering to a plan of medication or supplements is important. Unconsumed medication or supplements cannot be effective. On the flip-side, overdosing (whether accidentally or intentionally) can be dangerous. For some types of medication, the importance of strict adherence will be obvious. But even in the case of supplements, adherence leads to improved health outcomes.

08 June 2018 / / HealthTech

When you picture your retirement, what do you see? Do you picture warm sandy beaches? Finally getting to work on all those creative projects you’ve been dreaming of? Picnics with grand kids? Diving into high impact volunteer work? Strolling through exotic bazaars in faraway places with close friends?