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In reply to the discussion: Time to boycott Walgreens [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)My parents (aged 97 and 88) were using Costco for their medications (for price). And then my father broke his femur this spring and can't drive anymore (thank heavens for that, at least!). Either my brother, or when we were in town, ourselves had to drive there for to pick up various of their array of medications for the first few months.
And then the Medicare nursing team that has been visiting him during his recuperation at home got them signed up to get their medications delivered to their door from (gosh, I forget the name of the outfit). Whatever the company is called, they sent a pharmacist to my parents' house to meet with them and check on all their meds, and she set up a program where once a month, each of them gets a box of their daily medications. Better than that: morning and evening pills are each in their own little tear-off packet on a roll (each labeled with their name, whether am or pm, and the names of the meds), which comes out of the box like a ticker-tape and is easy to separate. No more opening containers and counting out of pills into complex pill boxes! No more worrying about mistakes! No more running to the pharmacy! I think it's the best thing since sliced bread.
Now, if you only have one or two meds a day, maybe this is not necessary for you. But it's made my parents' life (and ours--both in terms of errands and worrying about them) a thousand times easier!
(I'll get the name if you're interested.) At any rate, you DON'T have to use Walgreen's.