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A programmed clock is disclosed for signalling a person times that dosages of medication are to be taken in compliance with a medication schedule. A record producing apparatus is provided for producing a record of the person\s compliance with the medication regimen. A control, including a programmed

A programmed clock is disclosed for signalling a person times that dosages of medication are to be taken in compliance with a medication schedule. A record producing apparatus is provided for producing a record of the person\s compliance with the medication regimen. A control, including a programmed timer, determines the time the dosages of medication are to be taken from a plurality of compartments. The program activates the record producing apparatus to provide textual messages used for generation of a record of compliance with the programmed medication schedule including times at which medications were taken and times at which medications were not taken.

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A medication clock comprising: (a) a plurality of compartments with each compartment being separately usable for holding one or more medications to be taken by a person and permitting access to any medication stored in a compartment at all times; (b) a programmable timing means which produces a medi

A medication clock comprising: (a) a plurality of compartments with each compartment being separately usable for holding one or more medications to be taken by a person and permitting access to any medication stored in a compartment at all times; (b) a programmable timing means which produces a medication signal indicating the time that a person is to take one or more medications to be taken at specific times and an indication that a dosage of medication has not been taken in response to a medication signal; (c) means, responsive to the medication signal produced by the programmable timing means, to produce an alarm for alerting the person that it is time to take a particular medication; (d) means, located in proximity to each of said compartments, separately activable for producing an acknowledgment signal that any one of the medications stored in one of the compartments has been taken; (e) a memory, coupled to the programmable timing means, for storing an identification of each medication taken and the time and date of taking each dosage of each medication as signalled by the occurrence of an acknowledgment signal by one of the means for producing an acknowledgment signal, and further storing an identification of each medication and the time that a dosage of a medication was not taken in response to the medication signal; and (f) record producing means, coupled to the memory, for providing a dosage record of the stored identification of each medication and the time of taking each dosage of medication taken for each of the medications being taken, and an identification of each medication and the time that each dosage was missed.