Free printable medication list for your aging parent

When you're suddenly managing a parent's medications, the hardest part is often just knowing what they take. This list gives you one place to write it down, keep it current and share it.

What you get: a 3-page PDF for US Letter paper, printed landscape. Page 1 is the current medication list, page 2 is care contacts and a changes log, page 3 explains how to use it. It's made for printing and filling in by hand.

Preview of page 1: name, date of birth, last updated, updated by and page number fields; an allergies box; and a table for medication and strength, what it's for, how much and when, prescriber code, start date and notes — Page 1, the current medication list.

What it records

Each medication and its strength, copied exactly from the pharmacy label.
How much and when, as the label or prescriber gives it.
What it's for, in the words the doctor used, so everyone helping understands.
Who prescribed it, using short codes that point to a contacts page with each prescriber's and pharmacy's phone number.
A changes log, so the current list stays clean while the history of what changed, when and who said so stays on file.
Allergies, at the top where anyone can see them.

How families use it

Keep one copy with the medications and one in the bag that goes to appointments. When a doctor or pharmacist changes something, log it, rewrite the list, and replace every older copy so there's only ever one current version. Hand a copy to anyone who helps with care, and ask the doctor or pharmacist to check it at the next visit.

This list is a record-keeping tool. It doesn't tell you what to take, when to take it or whether to change anything. If two instructions don't match, write the question down and ask your parent's prescriber or pharmacist.