Medication
Vitamin D was shown to reduce the rate of falls and the number of fallers in one study (N = 85) in institutionalised women with low vitamin D levels in the chronic phase after stroke. In another study in hospitalised people in the chronic stage after stroke (N = 79), alendronate was also shown to reduce the rate of falls and the number of fallers. These significant findings should be considered provisional until data from further studies evaluating these interventions confirm the results.
Environmental adaptation (vision improvement)
One study assessed the provision of single lens distance vision glasses instead of multifocal glasses to people after their stroke (N = 46), and did not show a significant reduction in the rate of falls nor a difference in the number of fallers between both groups.