New pill bottles for shaky hands will help people with Parkinson’s (2021)
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#2Smack in the middle of the page is a TikTok video with obnoxious music, completely irrelevant to the article. What is the point? Showing TikTok that I accessed the page?
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#3Smack in the middle of the page is a TikTok video with obnoxious music, completely irrelevant to the article. What is the point? Showing TikTok that I accessed the page?
They probably make money by having it there.
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#4My mother is 80+. She struggles not only with pill bottles but opening cans, jars, etc. Many of the food items are handed to me and I struggle to open them.
It boggles my mind that such things - in an "advanced society" - are still not solved.
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#5is it still "child proof"?
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#6Reminds me of: https://www.liftware.com/steady/
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#7Smack in the middle of the page is a TikTok video with obnoxious music, completely irrelevant to the article. What is the point? Showing TikTok that I accessed the page?
I'm guessing they maybe just grabbed the wrong tiktok video link from Jimmy Choi's profile. Doubt it's anything nefarious. The story is about a product that was kicked off after folks watched one of his tiktoks.
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#8I remember when Michael J Fox announced that he had Parkinson’s in 1998
https://www.michaeljfox.org/michaels-story
He started his foundation to treat/cure the disease. Somehow I thought we’d have had made more progress in 25 years.
I also find it interesting to look back at the US national debt and wonder how the world would have been different if we invested more of that into research (e.g medical, pure science, etc)
In 1998, the national debt was $5.5 trillion and today is $30 trillion.
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#9My mother is 80+. She struggles not only with pill bottles but opening cans, jars, etc. Many of the food items are handed to me and I struggle to open them. It boggles my mind that such things - in an "advanced society" - are still not solved.
I have to use pliers to open new bottles of the ranch dressing I buy. It's ridiculous how tight they are.
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#10My mother is 80+. She struggles not only with pill bottles but opening cans, jars, etc. Many of the food items are handed to me and I struggle to open them. It boggles my mind that such things - in an "advanced society" - are still not solved.
It's amazing that so many things that are medicinal, or otherwise intended for people who are not at 100% are packaged in a way that makes them impossible to open.
Zyrtec-D, and Flonase come to mind. Two great examples of companies that must really hate their customers.
Zyrtec-D has to be opened by peeling a micro-thin layer of foil away from a paper-thin piece of plastic.
Flonase is sealed inside a plastic blister pack that can only be opened with stout scissors or garden shears. It is designed to not be openable by human hands.
I'm sure this packaging saved the companies 1¢ per package in costs, and earned some North Shore middle manager the bonus he needed to buy his kid a second boat.
Sadly, the number of things sold on Amazon in "Frustration-free packaging" is dwindling by the day.
All of this goes along with what I call the Elderly Tax. As a society, in many ways we punish people for living a long life.
For example, at the grocery store, a theoretical eight-pack of bottled water costs $3.00. A theoretical 32-pack of bottled water costs $5.00. But no older person can lift a 32-pack of water. So to get 32 bottles of water, an older person has to pay 140% more just because they made the mistake of not dying young.