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Ask Don!
Your Questions on Aging
Answered
by Don Hoffman, Staff Writer
Dr. Donald Hoffman, a former
director of the University of
Kentucky’s Council on Aging and
Donovan Scholars Program and
a nationally recognized author
and authority on aging, answers
your questions on aging. Submit
your questions directly to him at:
[email protected].
Medication
Reminders
Susan W. Asks: I take multiple medications and have trouble
keeping up with them. In fact, I’ve
missed several doses recently and
need help remembering when I
need to take them. What do you
suggest?
Don says: I remember as a
child when everyone would joke
about placing a string around their
fingers as a memory jog and then
forgetting what the string was for.
The problem is all too common.
There are some simple steps you
might find useful. One solution is
to use Post-It notes as reminders. I
hang notes near the coffee pot, on a
kitchen cabinet door, on front and
back entry doors and near my computer and tele ۙH\