A study carried out in Portugal on ”Adherence to Medication Regimen in the Elderly” [27] (PhD thesis, in
Portuguese) showed that a large majority of the elderly people need external help for managing medication. Having
carried out a study with a population of elderly people, the study stated that ”interventions (giving advise on
pharmaceutical drugs, pharmaceutical drugs control and pharmaceutical drug education) are effective in increasing
adherence” to medication. Looking at the summary of the type of help that Portuguese elderly patients (older than 65
years, as published in [27]) said to be needing in order to adhere to medication, one can notice that a large majority
of the elderly need help in medication control, being that more than 80% present reasons that can be almost
completely overcome by Ambient Assisted Living systems.