Vitamin D: 4 Ways Supplementation Can Improve Elderly Health

Boosting levels coincides with lowered risk of debilitating mental and physical diseases

Vitamin D can make a difference for seniors in preventing dementia, cancer, vertigo and falls. Shutterstock

Vitamin D deficiency is often accompanied by symptoms and diseases that are casually dismissed as “old age.”

Vitamin D, which acts more like a hormone than a vitamin, plays several important roles and can affect everything from cognition to cancer. Among its roles, it helps control calcium and phosphate levels in the body.