{"id":9399,"date":"2025-12-29T23:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/29\/urinary-tract-infections-urinalysis-accuracy-elderly-patients\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T23:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:02:20","slug":"urinary-tract-infections-urinalysis-accuracy-elderly-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/29\/urinary-tract-infections-urinalysis-accuracy-elderly-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: The complicated truth about urinary tract infections in the elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: The complicated truth about urinary tract infections in the elderly<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Recently, a former patient contacted me about his wife. \u201cShe had a recent stroke which has caused cognitive decline along with slow-growing dementia,\u201d he told me via text. \u201cNever, ever had a urinary tract infection in her life, she has now had four in the last three months. We have seen a urologist and of course, our primary and I would like to get your opinion on what we can do preventively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Little did he know there was nothing to do preventively \u2014 because she hadn\u2019t experienced infections in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/29\/urinary-tract-infections-urinalysis-accuracy-elderly-patients\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Neil Gaffin<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/29\/urinary-tract-infections-urinalysis-accuracy-elderly-patients\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: The complicated truth about urinary tract infections in the elderly Recently, a former patient contacted me about his wife. \u201cShe had a recent stroke which has caused cognitive decline along with slow-growing dementia,\u201d he told me via text. \u201cNever, ever had a urinary tract infection in her life, she has now had four in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2143,2179,2313],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-opinion","category-infectious-disease","category-patients","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}