UTIs can be deadly, easily, especially in the elderly if not diagnosed in time. They don’t present the same way they do in younger years so it’s easy not to know you have one. Mom almost succumbed a few years ago.
UTI’s happen in the elderly when they don’t hydrate themselves properly.
Tanya Roberts was 65 years old when she died...I don't think somebody who is 65 years old is "very old"...But, she was still old...
A woman I worked with just lost her mother from sepsis from a UTI
My mother died from a UTI when it developed into MRSA
UTIs especially ones caused by Klebsiella bacteria can become life threatening very quickly. She may have been prescribed a catheter which on installation or removal could cause such an infection. You’re fine and suddenly you have 103° fever. If ypu dally getting to ER you could eadily pass.
Hard for me to believe you wouldn’t know you had a UTI. I’ve had them and cannot wait to get to the doctor for “diagnosis” and antibiotics to cure them. And I’m definitely “elderly.”
I lost a good friend to it last year . She wouldn’t go to the doctor .