The elderly can’t urinate treatment: 1. If you are an elderly male, mostly consider urinary retention caused by prostatic hyperplasia, it is recommended to visit the hospital and give an indwelling catheter treatment. Then further evaluate the related physical condition and the degree of prostate enlargement to choose drug conservative treatment or surgical treatment. The actual tamsulosin hydrochloride extended-release capsule can be taken once daily for two weeks orally. Finasteride tablets can be taken once a day for four weeks. If the body condition can tolerate surgery, it is recommended to choose transurethral prostate plasma or laser resection surgery treatment, which can completely cure the prostate disease. 2, if it is an elderly woman, more consider the existence of neurogenic bladder or the emergence of bladder prolapse, it is recommended to give temporary first indwelling catheter treatment. If you have a neurogenic bladder, you need to have a urodynamic examination to confirm the diagnosis of no contraction of the bladder forcing muscles, and you need to consider a long-term tube or a cystostomy treatment. If the bladder is prolapsed, pelvic floor reconstruction surgery is recommended to treat the difficulty in urination due to pelvic floor organ prolapse.