Penny Pijnenberg
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But let's say, so basically almost everyone, right, that's nearly 80% of women who can get this at somewhere between, well, you're saying your daughter has it.
So let's say between your 20 and your 100.
Because a lot of women in the care homes or older women get all these UTIs, right?
My sister works in a care home.
I've once asked her, I said, is this actually true?
And she says, yes, a lot of them.
And the doctors give them a lot of antibiotics.
And it's so sad.
But also the doctors in the care homes.
When you came over to the Netherlands, I was trying to get in touch with a doctor who was at the care home where my mother lived.
Because I wanted her to see also your presentation about the risk of not taking hormones.
Because I think the people that are the geriatric doctors that are treating elderly, I don't think they are aware of this link.
And yes, it might be too late to start an 80-year-old woman maybe on hormones.
No, not at all.
Yeah, that's a whole discussion too, right?
But at least I think it's good if those doctors understand, but there seems to be a gap.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So my mother passed away about a little bit over a year and a half ago.
And the last nine months of her life, she was living in a care home.