Talking Pill Bottles, Update 3,A Breakthrough for Some Medicare Plans

On September 30 2014 OptumRX, the mail order pharmacy for some large insurance companies including United Health Care, announced that it is beginning the roll out of the ScriptTalk medication label reader. (Check the photo above and the original post below.) ScripTalk is the premier talking medication label device. As well as the full details […]

A breakthrough for Talking Medication Labels

OptumRx launched the Scriptalk Talking Medication Label Reader for all its mail order pharmacy customers on Tuesday September 30. This is great news because they are the mail order pharmacy for United Health Care and other big insurance companies. Click or enter on this link for the details and please comment on my comparison of […]

A brailler is embossing “fruit tea sampler” on the cardboard lid of a box of tea. August has ended and the school year is beginning. What about stretching your brain by learning braille? The Hadley School offers free tuition by mail or the internet. If you have a patterning kind of brain, it’s not hard […]

If the arrows, numbers and On/Off print information on your electronics and appliances are becoming a blur, it is tempting to continue as before. But what is really happening? Most likely you are setting the washer and the remote (remote control for your TV, stereo etc.) from memory, guesswork or waiting till you can ask […]

Here is a post about the PenFriend mentioned in Talking Pill Bottles Part 2 . It is the first of a group of posts about alternatives to print labels. The PenFriend was a breakthrough in labeling for anyone who struggles to read printed instructions or information. When it appeared, my colleague Eleanor Martin and I […]

No one wants to clean in hot weather, so why am I posting this in July ? Because I mostly don’t wear shoes indoors in summer. Maybe you don’t either, and feet are wonderful dirt and dropped item finders. (Unless you have diabetes. Then you have to stick to wearing shoes because of the risks […]

Nicole Kear gives a great account of adjusting to vision loss from the standpoint of slow loss over many years. She has RP (Retinitis Pigmentosa) and lives in a small apartment with her husband and young children. Her final summing up of how to live with vision loss is particularly good. She loved her vision […]

Yesterday September 30 2014 OptumRX, the mail order pharmacy for some large insurance companies including United Health Care, announced that it is beginning the roll out of the ScriptTalk medication label reader. (Check the photo above and the original post below.) ScripTalk is the premier talking medication label device. As well as the full details […]

After Walgreens pharmacies launched a new Talking Pill Reminder last month, here is the first of two blog posts about talking labels on your medications. This post tells you about the pharmacies that supply talking prescription devices and the pharmacies that do not. And next week’s post will describe the advantages and drawbacks of the […]

Your fingers and hands have so many jobs to do now that your sight is not so good, or gone altogether. Maybe you’ve never realized how many other parts and functions besides pointing and grasping your wonderful hands have. Landing gear: Your pinkie pointing out and down as you start to land your glass on […]

Vision loss and Personal Recovery

WHEN YOU CAN'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES

Home Life – Organizing for Your Vision Loss

Talking Pill Bottles, Update 3,A Breakthrough for Some Medicare Plans

A breakthrough for Talking Medication Labels

Braille Reading Changes Your Brain: But It’s Hard Work

Velcro, Hi-Marks and Spotters: the Private World of Bump Dots

Information When You Need It, Where You Need It: Audio Labelers

Dancing as You Clean

Living with Vision Loss in a Small apartment [Re-Post from the New York Times]

Talking Pill Bottles Part 2: The Talking Devices and Where to Get Them [Update 3 -A Breakthrough for Some Medicare Plans]

Does Your Pill Bottle Talk?

Your Wonderful Hands