My mother is in her early 70s. I'm not her carer per se. I think there is definitely a cognitive decline happening with her. Every day id different.
Over the past year she has been experiencing some UTIs. At first she went to her own GP of her own record. She was getting up at night loads of times for the loo.
In April she had another UTI. She was a snarly old lunatic in the run up to it. Then she came to me and asked me about a supplement for UTIs. I encouraged her to go to the GP but she refused and it took her a week to go to the GP while she behaved like a snarly loonie.
She had another UTI in the summer time and it was similar. Just snarly and rude and angry.
She's going through another spell of this kind of stuff. Her comprehension is definitely waning. She's cranky and snarly. She's up and down to the toilet several times a night. This is a UTI, for sure.
I said it today to her but she dismissed me and wrote of my suggestion of a UTI.
She won't use testing strips. She won't go to her GP. I live in a country where antibotics are not prescribed by a pharmacy so can't get them that way either.
In fact she has a bottle of antibiotics from the summer time. I don't know what they were from. If she was prescribed them for an infection but she didn't take them or if they were just in case antibiotics but she has them locked up in her room and I am not even supposed to know about them.
How do you deal with UTIs in something like this?