MEDCENTERTalking Alarm Clock, Medication Pill Reminder Clock, Talking Alarm Clock for Dementia, Hearing, Visually impaired Seniors-Digital Clock Ex Large White - Gift for Mom, Dad, Elderly, Seniors

I have one medicine that I have to take four times a day and was having a real problem remembering to take it. This reminder clock is perfect. It can be set to beep or to a voice that tells me when it is time to take the pills. If I remember on my own and take the pills I can touch the "alarm acknowledged" button twice to clear it from going off and to make sure what time it plans to go off next; it tells you "alarm acknowledged" and "the next reminder will be the _____ alarm at (time)" so you know exactly when the next alarm will go off. I was not going to be home one day at pill time and found I can turn a single alarm off, then turn it back on when I get back--that way it doesn't beep too long with no one at home. It has a port for inserting an external power cord to plug into the wall but I have been using batteries and they haven't run down after several months of use. There is a light with a button to push to turn it on, but it doesn't light the dial very well but I don't need it to. The face of the clock shows the day, number of the day of the month, and the current time but it is rather dark, but all I need is the reminder alarms.Update: I have had this med reminder for almost a year now, I think--long time anyway. It still functions well but I have found a few flaws. My timer did not come with paper instructions, just a diagram on the box. The website says it should come with a paper copy of instructions so if yours does, be sure and save them in a safe place for future use. My four times a day medicine was changed to one I took three times a day and I could not figure out how to turn off the 12 pm alarm. After giving up I asked my husband to see if he could do it and somehow he did; but he can't remember how. Now I'm supposed to use a med four times a day and I couldn't figure out how to turn the noon alarm back on. My husband tried and he couldn't either. I went to the company's website and downloaded instructions for my model of alarm. The problem is, they must have changed the set up of the buttons but kept the model number. On the instructions one of the buttons on my alarm is not there anymore but I hoped the instructions would work anyway. They did not; but I found where they said the alarm was automatically set to four times a day when the batteries are inserted. Instead of noon the set times included 1 pm so that was close enough for me. I took out the batteries and waited a second and put them back in. Sure enough, the four times a day automatic settings worked. Of course I had to reset the hour, minutes, date, and year. I just hope I don't have to change the frequency or times of alarms in the future.The second annoying thing about the alarm is the volume. There are only two settings, "loud" and "extra loud". The loud setting is really loud and I have never tried the extra loud setting. The alarm is placed on my computer desk since that is near where I keep my meds. There is a phone near there too and if the alarm comes on while I'm on the phone I can't hear the caller and they can't hear me. Usually they gasp, "What is that?!!!!" and I explain it is my pill reminder. Pushing the button to shut off the alarm doesn't help because it goes on to tell you the time and when your next alarm is due. Most of the time that is fine and I don't want to shut off the voice feature but it can be annoying.

My father-in-law was recently diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. He was prescribed several new medicines and had to take pills five times a day for a while. My mother-in-law was so worried about forgetting to give his medicine to him, so I ordered this alarm clock. It has really helped ease her worries and let her relax without constantly looking at the clock. We were only able to set four alarms with this device, but we had decided we could easily remember the ones he takes first thing in the morning so we set the alarms for the other four times (8:30am, 3pm, 8:30pm, and 11pm). The alarms were easy to set and went off as scheduled. It was loud enough that we could hear it if we were in the back of the apartment or if we had dozed off. The doctor recently made med changes and my father-in-law now only takes medicine twice a day. I was easily able to turn off two of the alarms that we no longer need. The only little issue we've come across is that on a few occasions, one of the alarms will go off four minutes late. For example, one evening, the #3 alarm started blinking at 8:30 pm, but the sound did not go off until 8:34pm. This has happened about five times over the past month. Those 4 minutes are not a big deal to us, but we cannot figure out why it does this. Even so, I would definitely recommend this product!

good product

Even though I saw specs..still seems larger than I expected. Barely fits into a shirt pocket.Was easy to program. .. but uses default times of the day. My #1 alarm is at 7am.. and #2 at 7:30am...yewt by default it calls #2 Afternoon. I Have to spread 2 AM meds apart by 30 min.It uses a pretty high pitched Beep .. which may not be heard well by some elderly. A lower pitch tone or Buzz may work better. Or give user a selection of tones to chose.The Voice response is also not that clear to me. Very tinny sound. Hard to understand difference between Alarm On or Off... or in general what it is saying during each alarm. A lower pitch voice may help..or selectable female vs male. BUT...it is loud enough to at least get your attention if the Beep doesn't.Beyond that ..I will still find a use for it. What it says is not an issue to me...but may be to others.

Works well until it starts resetting itself. This is the second one ordered due to resetting continuously. No problems with seller ordering or delivery just the item quits holding the settings.