BOSTON: Giving the elderly vitamin D tablets with their meals-on-wheels helped to prevent serious falls, research shows.
Housebound patients who received daily supplements with their hot dinners were half as likely to fall over.
Experts think the tablets strengthen the bones and muscles and also boost the immune system, meaning the elderly are overall less frail.
Vitamin D can help prevent falls among the elderly if taken every day with hot food, research has found.
Almost a third of the over-65s and half of over-80s fall over at least once a year.
They are the leading cause of death in the over 75s…