Medication Adherence Tracker with Caregiver View
A reminder app for people managing several long-term prescriptions, with an optional linked view for a family member who wants to know a dose was taken. Deliberately accessible design for older users, which is a real engineering constraint rather than a decorative one.
Beginner
Achievable by one student in a semester with familiar tools.1 semester, 1 to 2 students
5 to ship
3 optional extrasSuggested stack
What you should ship
- Medication schedule supporting daily, interval, as needed and tapering regimes
- Reliable local notifications that survive device restart and aggressive battery optimisation
- Adherence history with a simple visual summary over weeks
- Consent based caregiver link showing whether doses were taken, with the patient able to revoke access
- Accessibility work: large text, high contrast, screen reader labels, verified with a real screen reader
If you have time left
- Refill prediction warning before a prescription runs out
- Photograph of the medication on the reminder to reduce confusion between similar tablets
- Interaction warnings sourced from a public drug database, clearly attributed
The problem
Adherence to long term medication is poor, and the largest single cause is not resistance but forgetting, particularly for people managing five or six prescriptions on different schedules. Family members want to help without supervising.
What you build
A scheduling engine covering realistic regimes, notifications that actually fire, an adherence history, and a consent based caregiver view.
The technical problem that is harder than it looks
Notifications. Modern mobile operating systems aggressively suspend background work, and the standard student result is an app whose reminders stop firing after two days on a real device. Solving this properly across both platforms, and documenting what you had to do, is a legitimate and useful contribution.
The design constraint
Your users may be seventy years old with limited vision and no interest in learning an interface. Large targets, high contrast, minimal navigation depth, and no gesture that is not also available as a button. Test with an actual screen reader and, if possible, an actual older person.
The ethical line
This is a reminder tool, not a medical device. It must not suggest doses, diagnose, or advise stopping a medication. Say so in the app and in the report, and route anything clinical to a professional.
Scope warning
No prescription management, pharmacy integration or clinical records. Reminders, history and a caregiver link, done well.
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