This is a problem for designers of child-resistant medicine containers.
Many people, especially the over-50s, have great difficulty opening the "squeeze hard and turn" design. So they empty medicines into containers they can use, sometimes just open ones. This is not good for reducing the yearly 10,000 cases of accidental poisonings.
An alliance of psychologists, engineers and designers has worked on this.
The designs they've come up with are known as the slide, the tri and the poke. The first two depend on co-ordination; the last requires longer fingers than those of a child.
It remains to be seen whether children can get into them. But that's not really the point. The real issue is: will adults use them? Then, will the psychologists and designers work on the other medication problems for the over-50s. How many of the red ones am I meant to take a day? What are the blue ones for? When do I take them? Have I already had one ...?
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