Elderly adults and those with low dexterity in their hands and wrists struggle with opening pill bottles. Current designs involve the use of these fine motor skills. The team designed a pill bottle cap to reduce the strain, allowing patients to access necessary medication while maintaining a child-safety lock. Based on preliminary results, the design can be a new and useful way of approaching this problem.

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Creator

• Uy, Nicholas
• Beane, Joseph
• Bass, Emma
• Mills, Jennifer

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 121298
• E-project-042224-130946

Keyword

• pill bottle
• accessible
• medication
• childproof
• dexterity

Advisor

• Reidinger, Zoe

Year

• 2024

Date created

• 2024-04-22

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Biomedical Engineering

Source

• E-project-042224-130946

Rights statement

• In Copyright