Table 2.

Solutions That Can Be Offered According to the Pharmacy Technicians.

Category of Solution	n (%), N = 31	Solutionsa
Information and counseling	24 (77.4)	Providing information (n = 15); demonstrations (n = 10)
Changing and manipulation of packaging	31 (100)	Changing label or dosage form (n = 9); extracting tablets or capsules from blisters and dispensing them (usually) in a bottle (n = 23); extracting medicine and exchanging difficult for easy to open packaging form: bottle for (easy to open) bottle (n = 15), tube for (more malleable, plastic instead of aluminum) tube or container (n = 5); exchanging lids on bottles (n = 4); removing a seal or unscrewing caps of (tamper-evident) bottles (n = 9); dispensing medicine in special pill organizers (eg, multi-dose dispensing system, n = 12)
Tools	20 (64.5)	None (n = 5); tools can be provided, sometimes on order (n = 7); eye drop bottle squeezers (n = 7); towels for gripping bottles (n = 2); tube squeezers (n = 1); blister pack openers (n = 3, although some would advise household tools instead)

^aSometimes one technician mentioned multiple solutions.