AC Power Adapter for Pill Reminder Talking Alarm Clock

I purchased this for my husband, Bobby, who had dementia and all sorts of medical problems. He passed away in April of this year, but this was such a blessing to us and to him while he was alive. A multiple stroke victim, various cancers survivor, age 76, dysphagia, completely blocked carotid arteries, serious balance/gait inbalance, just all around confusion and difficulty understanding simple instructions. I work and couldn't be with him during the day, and my brother stayed with him during the day while I was at work, but my brother had much difficulty with being confused about what medications to take at which times, especially since they changed often, even multiple times a month. Bobby was taking between 25-30 different medications, not including over the counter or vitamins/supplements at any given time and had several home health aides coming by at different times weekly (Physical therapist, nurse's aide, LPN, speech therapist, wound care nurse). After much difficulty and having to call home multiple times a day to make sure his medication was administered correctly and pill reminders, etc. I found this and IT WAS A GOD SEND! Truly! I purchased the MedCenter pill 31 day organizer that goes with it and they together are especially wonderful. Now on to the unique clock features... The clock has 4 buttons on top, which are clearly labeled and color coded for ease of readability. A confused elderly person can remember to hit the yellow button, for instance, to light up the display, or the red button to turn off the alarm. One button tells the time and date, "The time is, 10:30 AM on Friday, June 20th" for example. We found this to be especially wonderful. Bobby would forget what day it was several times a day, and so he knew he could just tap this clock, which was right beside him, any time he wanted to find out the day, date or time. It also told the next time a pill was due, "Your next reminder will be 1 PM," for example. On the back there is a recording button and 6 different slots that you can record about 30 seconds of a message, "Good morning, Honey. It's time to take your morning dose in the morning pill section. I hope you have a great day. I love you!" If I had extra slots, for example we only needed 4 pill reminders, then I would leave little thoughtful messages for him on the other 2 slots, like "God loves you!" or "Hope your day is going good! I love you and will see you tonight!" or "Don't forget to pray." or "I left you some brownies in the kitchen." or "don't forget to drink your Ensure." or "Guess what, Honey? I LOVE you!!!" or whatever. That way, he sort of felt like I was nearby all during the day and it was a comfort to him. You can also choose an alarm tone instead of personal message for any or all of the alarms, and the alarm goes off for about a whole minute, then repeats every few minutes again until they turn it off. So if it goes off while he's in the restroom, he doesn't miss it, but the other people in the house don't have to listen to my sappy love messages until he gets out. It runs on electricity and has a battery backup, so no worries that it will lose power.Now that he is gone, I still use the alarm for various other times I need a personal message alarm. For example, I am a chronic late sleeper and snooze my alarm until the very last second and then I get up and have to rush just to get to work late. For some reason, in my drowsy state, I start reasoning..."I can shower in one minute, get dressed in 5 minutes, pull my hair up in one minute, put my make up on while stopped in traffic...." you get the drill. I have even accidentally turned my alarm completely off instead of snoozing it, and then I don't wake back up until I'm already late for work. With this, I can program a personal message that snaps me back to reality, like, "Get up, you're going to want time to get ready. Just get up already!" Hearing my own voice of reason helps me to not be lazy and to get on up. Then, I can set a second separate alarm, "Ok, it's 6:30! You're not up yet! Get your lazy tail out of the bed!" I know it sounds crazy to some, but I'm sure some of you can relate either with yourself or a teenager, or whatever.I can also set an alarm for one of my housemates (who are home all day), "Don't forget to walk the dog." or "Please put the roast on to cook," or "don't forget to water the plants," or "Don't forget to mow the lawn before it rains." Think of all the many alarms you could set for yourself or someone in your home. You could set it in the living room with the message, "Don't forget to lock up the house and turn off everything," for a teen that might be coming in late. It's going to go off every so often so it will catch them at some point when they get home. They might see a note, but they will hear this annoyingly until they do it.One last comment. The clock is just the right size. Not huge or heavy, but chunky enough to be easy to grasp and hold on to, and big enough so that the readout is nice and large. Love this alarm, and it's light enough and sized right to travel with.

I got this clock for my dad who takes meds 5x's a day. We had a few hiccups when we were setting it up since the directions aren't crystal clear, but we found a video that explained it and got the kinks worked out. Once it's set up it's a great clock/med reminder. I wish it was a bit louder since he's hard of hearing, but having said that . . . if he doesn't "acknowledge" (that's the button he has to press) the alarm it will beep for about 30 seconds, stop and beep again in another minute until he presses the button. I wondered if it would stop repeating if he was asleep and didn't press the button, and it continued to repeat for at least 7 intervals (roughly 7 mins). I heard it when I was passing his room and woke him up. I would definitely recommend this clock to anyone who needs several alarms throughout the day. Another cool feature is that you can record voice messages with the alarms. When the Acknowledge button is pressed the recording will be played, so someone with kids could set a message saying "Time for Bed", "Time for a bath"

I replaced an older model that I bought in 2015. Love this alarm but one feature changed on this newer model. On older model, you could acknowledge the alarm up to an hour before the time set. On this model, you can't acknowledge it until the alarm starts beeping. Miss that feature.

I got this for my elderly mother to help her to remember to eat when she should, and take her medications. It does exactly what I bought it for, and was not that difficult to program. It took me a couple minutes to figure out what I needed to be doing, and I actually found the instructions more confusing than they needed to be. I did a better job of figuring it out intuitively, and was stumped by one thing only which the instructions don't even mention. After updating the year, month, and day/date of the month, I expected I would be able to also tell it what day of the week it was, since it kept showing the wrong day of the week in the display, but there is no further option to update that yourself. Apparently it takes a couple minutes to update itself once you have input the rest of the information, because I noticed it finally did display properly. It just did not do it immediately. I also chose to include spoken messages for Mom, and it is VERY easy to set up. The beep/alarm and voice messages are also quite loud and clear, so anyone hard of hearing will have no problem hearing it. I thought the option of having a familiar voice be what a user hears, instead of a "canned" voice, sort of neat. It made Mom laugh when she heard it for the first time! She did admit, however, that having this alarm go off three times a day might drive her nuts, but I told her if it forces her to remember what she needs to be doing daily (which she hadn't been, on her own, and she ended up being hospitalized because of it), then a little aggravation would just have to become part of the daily routine.