How to keep track of your parents' medicines from another city
Start with one complete list of their medicines, put reminders where they'll be heard, and make sure you find out when a dose is missed or a strip is running low. The rest is a short weekly routine, shared with whoever else helps.
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Make one list of every medicine
For each one: the name and strength, how many at which times (such as 1-0-1), before or after food, which doctor prescribed it, and until when. Include vitamins and anything from a second doctor. If two prescriptions disagree, ask the doctor which one to follow.
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Keep every prescription and report
Take a photo of each one and keep them together, newest first. When the doctor asks "what did the last report say?", you'll have it, and you can see whether a result is going up or down over time.
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Put reminders on their phone, and hear when one is missed
A reminder ringing on your phone in Bengaluru doesn't help Ma in Lucknow. Let it ring on hers, and have your phone tell you only when a dose isn't marked. That replaces the daily "did you take your tablet?" call with one you make when it matters.
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Make the tablets easy to find
A weekly pill organizer helps, and filling it together on a Sunday video call is a good habit. Keep all the strips in one box, away from old or stopped medicines.
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Count, and refill before it runs out
Know how many tablets are at home and when each medicine will run out. Order about a week before; the local chemist may need a few days for a less common medicine.
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Write down the doctor's advice and the next visit
"Walk 30 minutes daily", "check fasting sugar every morning", "review after one week with the report". Advice that's written down, with a reminder, actually happens. Keep a list of questions for the next visit as they come up.
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Keep emergency details ready
Blood group, allergies, conditions, the current medicine list and the doctor's number, where you, your siblings and a trusted neighbour can find them quickly.
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Share the work
Keep everything in one place the whole family can see, so siblings don't ask the same questions or buy the same strip twice. A visiting nurse or helper can be given just what they need for one person.
How Nabzs helps
Nabzs puts all of this in one app for the whole family. Scan a prescription and the medicines and times are read for you to check. Each dose rings on your parent's phone, and yours is told if it isn't marked within 30 minutes. Nabzs counts the tablets at home and says how many to buy. Reports, doctor visits and the doctor's advice stay together, and each person's health profile keeps their blood group, allergies and conditions.
Siblings join the family and see the same screen, and a nurse or helper can be invited to see only one person. In English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu. See how Nabzs works.
