Part of the cognitive rehabilitation worksheets guide
Managing medications and managing money are two of the most cognitively demanding routines in everyday life. Each one asks a person to read and interpret small print, keep track of amounts and timing, calculate, sequence a set of steps, and make a sensible decision when something unexpected happens. In practice settings they are treated as instrumental activities of daily living, and they are among the most requested areas for structured practice materials.
This guide walks through the formats used to practice them on paper and in hands-on sessions: printable medication and money management worksheets with free samples, physical kits for medication and money practice, and a free interactive simulator.
Everything on this page is for educational and cognitive practice use, not treatment, therapy, assessment, or medical or financial advice.
The task types
Worksheets, hands-on kits and a free simulator for the same two routines. Each free PDF opens directly, and the full set sits beside it with its price.
Medication Management worksheets
Pill identification, label reading, timing, medication math, and reasoning scenarios, each with an answer page. One schedule worksheet is free.
The full set: Medication Management Worksheets for Adults (10 Worksheets) $4.25
Money management worksheets
Bills, bank statements, pay stubs, and budgets: 32 worksheets in four levels from Bills, Banking & Paychecks, each with an answer page. Two pay stub worksheets are free.
The full set: Bills, Banking & Paychecks $9.99
Life skills worksheets
Laundry, meals, shopping lists, phone messages, chores, buses, mail and emergency contacts: 32 worksheets in four levels from Home & Daily Living, with pictures and an answer page each. A care label and a laundry basket are free.
The full set: Home & Daily Living $9.99
Activities of daily living checklist
Two printable pages a family or care team fills in on paper: eight basic activities and eleven everyday tasks, four tick boxes and a notes line each, no score. Free to print.
The full set: Home & Daily Living $9.99
Medication Management Kit
The same practice with tangible materials for sorting, scheduling, and label reading in face-to-face sessions. Reusable across clients, and it ships to you.
Physical kit · $54.00
Money Management Kit, U.S. edition
Realistic U.S. practice currency with graded money-handling and budgeting activities: counting change, budgeting a purchase, checking a receipt.
Physical kit · $49.00
Money Management Kit, Canadian edition
The same money practice built for Canadian currency: counting, purchasing, budgeting, and receipt checking with realistic practice bills and coins.
Physical kit · $49.00
Medication Log
A printable log in four versions, including large print, for recording what was taken and when. The caregiving log, with a column for initials, is free to print.
The full set: Medication Log $1.99
Weekly Medication Schedule
A weekly pill schedule with morning, afternoon, and evening rows and a box to check for every day. The weekly page is free to print and fill in from the label.
The full set: Weekly Medication Tracker $1.99
Everyday math for adults
Money, time, and number practice for adults who find numbers hard, including adults with dyscalculia. A free large-print page on making change.
More money practice: Bills, Banking & Paychecks $9.99
The kits ship to you; the worksheets print at home or in the clinic. See all functional cognition kits
Want every set in the shop? The Entire Shop Mega Bundle is $35.00 for 2,000+ printable pages, more than $250 bought one set at a time. See the Mega Bundle
What these routines draw on
Both routines combine several thinking skills at once. That is what makes them useful practice material, and also what makes them hard after a neurological change:
Reading and interpreting
Finding the dose on a label, or the due date on a bill. Small print, unfamiliar terms, and details that matter.
Calculation
Working out how many tablets in a day, counting out change, or checking that a total adds up. Everyday arithmetic with real consequences.
Sequencing and scheduling
Putting doses into a weekly organizer, or paying bills in the right order before their due dates. Order and timing across a day or a week.
Judgment and problem solving
Deciding what to do about a missed dose, a price that seems wrong, or an unexpected charge. The step that no checklist fully covers.
Organization and tracking
Keeping a log, a tracker, or a budget up to date. What holds the routine together over weeks, not just today.
All of the materials below use fictional medications, labels, and practice currency created for this purpose. Nothing on this page is medical or financial advice, and the practice materials are not a substitute for the instructions of a prescriber, pharmacist, or financial professional.
How practice is graded
Matching the level to the person is what makes structured practice useful, so the worksheets and kit activities move from single steps to the full routine:
Basic
One label or one price at a time, whole amounts, and a single clear question.
Moderate
Several medications or items together, timing across a day, and change or totals to calculate.
Complex
Full weekly schedules, multi-item bills, competing information, and open-ended scenarios that call for a decision.
The free medication sample above is a moderate-level worksheet with its answer page, a realistic middle point to try before choosing where to start.
Practice on a screen
The medication routine also runs as a free interactive simulator in the browser. The person reads fictional labels, fills a weekly pill organizer, takes the day's medications at each time, and works through everyday medication decisions, and every action is recorded as an observation record:
Common questions
Are these the same as a medication or money management assessment?
No. Standardized assessments of these routines exist in clinical practice, but the worksheets, kits, and simulator here are structured practice materials for educational use. They are not scored against norms and are not assessments.
Do the materials use real medications or real money?
No. Every medication name, label, and scenario is fictional and created for practice, and the money kits use realistic practice currency rather than legal tender. For questions about actual medications or finances, follow the guidance of the prescriber, pharmacist, or financial professional involved.
Worksheets, kit, or simulator: which to choose?
They cover the same routine in three forms. Worksheets are quickest to print and file, with answer pages for checking. The kits bring tangible materials into face-to-face sessions and are reusable across clients. The simulator runs on any screen and records each step. Many people use them together.
Who are these designed for?
Occupational therapists and speech-language professionals working on instrumental activities of daily living, rehabilitation and community programs, life-skills educators, families supporting independence at home, and adults who want practical, structured practice.
Ready to practice hands-on? The functional cognition kits ship to your door, or start with the printable Medication Management set, ten worksheets with answer pages. For the wider set of everyday skills, browse the life skills worksheets for adults: four packs of 32 graded worksheets on money, health paperwork, scams and online safety, and running a home.