There's some crazy rules for carers. I am cared for by my boyfriend who is a sensible sort of person, but social services have set up this sort of contingency plan in case he's hospitalised or something, where a carer will come to my home to fill my boyfriend's role for up to 72 hours. Which is great. We had to draw up some instructions for this hypothetical carer and that's when we discovered that a carer isn't allowed to open a pack of medication, nor break the seal on a blister pack. They may suggest, prompt, instruct or remind me to take a tablet; they may bring me the pack, fetch me a drink, bring me scissors or a knife if necessary for me to use to open the packaging. But the cannot actually pop the tablet out.