Opinion

It struck me that the challenge area we are dealing with is about people not taking their meds in the way that the doctor intented them to.

It struck me that the challenge area we are dealing with is about people not taking their meds in the way that the doctor intented them to. It is evident that this is the result of not only the patient being at fault since everything around the patient is not fully functioning in most of the cases.

Based on this insight, I have come to the conclusion that we are better off using the term 'medication adherence' rather than 'patient compliance' -- the latter implies disobedient patients and leads us to focus the energy on more and better information to patients only. We might be barking up the wrong tree...