The treatment of urinary tract infection in the elderly is as follows: first, symptomatic treatment, according to the results of urine culture to choose antibiotics for anti-infection treatment, such as levofloxacin hydrochloride capsules, ciprofloxacin tablets or cefixime capsules and other drugs for treatment. The second, for the cause of treatment, such as diabetes patients need to actively control blood sugar, prostatic hyperplasia, urethral stricture patients can take oral tamsulosin hydrochloride extended release capsule or urethral dilatation and other treatment, so that prostatic hyperplasia, urethral stricture and other lesions causing urinary tract obstruction improve, urinary tract infection can be recovered earlier. The third, improve immunity and other treatment, elderly patients have low immunity and cause bacterial resistance to decline, if necessary, you can use thymidine injection and other drugs to improve the immunity of patients, so that the infection as soon as possible to recover. Fourth, drainage treatment, for patients with chronic urinary retention and urinary tract obstruction, if necessary, give indwelling catheter or suprapubic cystotomy, etc., to drain the residual urine out of the body in time, so that the infection recovers as soon as possible.