Postcape’s Anna Rajala presented the preliminary findings of her discourse analysis of 164 rehabilitation research articles on dementia at two conferences. Her paper at ‘Ageing in Europe Research Network Midterm Conference’ organised online by the University of Jyväskylä in January focused on dementia statistics in rehabilitation research and their emotionally laden character. Her paper at the ‘Chronic Living’ conference organised online by the University of Copenhagen in March set some grounds for thinking dementia as an affective ‘pericapitalist’ site in rehabilitation.