Heunjung Lee discusses her approach to understanding dementia through arts and humanities, challenging the stigma, and reframing the reality perception of people living with dementia. She  shares her research on using art to promote better quality of life in care homes and highlights the importance of recognizing and promoting the enduring abilities of individuals with dementia. Heunjung emphasizes the power of arts in creating connections, challenging stigma, and raising fundamental questions about our perception of dementia. Heunjung Lee is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies and an instructor at the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on how performance practices and theories can challenge ageism and stigma around dementia. She has created a research-based art piece called ”Across Time Through Dementia” and has been awarded and invited to several exhibitions. Resources Leave a Legacy: https://alzheimer.ca/ab/en/take-action/ways-donate/leave-legacy Care Partner resources: alzheimer.ca/en/help-support/im-caring-person-living-dementia Reducing stigma: alzheimer.ca/ab/en/take-action/change-minds Heunjung’s Research: Heunjung Lee. ”En/Countering Ageism Together: All the Sex I’ve Ever Had by Mammalian Diving Reflex.” Theatre Research in Canada 44.1, 2023, pp. 82-102. https://doi.org/10.3138/tric-2022-0004 Heunjung Lee and Xavia A. Publius, ”Getting Our Flowers Now: Ageing Trans and Queer Bodies in Gardenia (2010) and Gardenia - 10 Years Later (2021).” European Journal of Theatre and Performance, Issue 6, 2023, pp. 126-169. https://journal.eastap.com/eastap-issue-6/. Heunjung’s Artwork: Heunjung Lee. ”A Cross Time through Dementia.” Education and Research Archive. https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-1yzh-1910 Note: From a biomedical perspective, dementia is defined as a neurodegenerative condition, however, there is an emerging view that dementia should be included in the neurodivergent group. While pointing out the risks and tensions that ensues by including dementia in neurodiversity, Linda Örulv (2023) has argued that a neurodiversity perspective or paradigm can be applied to dementia “insofar as it points to how [normative models of functioning] limit our possibilities to act and interact in society, thereby alienating and marginalising minorities that diverge from them” (248). Örulv, Linda. ”18 Neurodiversity and dementia.” Critical Dementia Studies (2023): 247.