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Landscape architecture students at Iowa State worked to design and create a therapeutic garden for The Presbyterian Village's new dementia-care unit. Students carefully chose each element to elicit soothing memories of an Iowa childhood. "This course has definitely surpassed my expectations."

VIDEO + TRANSCRIPT Hormones released by stress appear to build up brain plaques and tangles. These plaques and tangles are widely considered to be hallmarks of Alzheimer's.

UCI biologists discovered that Hydra (pictured) have about the same number of genes as humans. In addition, some Hydra genes match the ones behind Huntington's and Alzheimer's in people. These two facts open huge possibilities for using Hydra to find new treatments and cures.

A caregiver asks:

Dear Nurse Dina,
Have you heard stories on coconut oil, fish oil and cod liver oil from dementia families?

My husband was diagnosed with dementia about 1 year ago.

I received a case study by a Dr. Mary Newport on her husband. She concluded that ketone bodies (found in coconut oil) had been very helpful in helping her husband. She saw significant results in 36 days. She is also recommending fish oil and cod liver oil. She researched an article by Dr. Richard Veech of the National Institutes of Health and he is doing research on this very thing.

I started my husband on coconut oil and am going to start buying more of our daily food at health food stores that have less additives. Have you had any similar stories from dementia families?

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