Background <p>Digital transformation is increasingly shaping the lives of older adults. Progress in the use of digital services can also be observed in senior housing arrangements and long-term care facilities.</p> Objective <p>This article discusses theoretical and conceptual approaches from gerontology, remedial education and educational science regarding the specificity of digitality in advanced age.</p> Material <p>The reflections are based on case studies of two vulnerable women in advanced age from the DiBiWohn project which reveal developments in digitality.</p> Results <p>Forms of digitality can also be found in geriatric care settings that go beyond compensatory functions for social and physical losses and demonstrate potential for forms of participation, relationship maintenance and transformative education.</p> Discussion <p>Classical gerontological concepts tend to emphasize the deficit compensatory functions of technology. In contrast, perspectives from remedial education and educational science may offer impulses for aging research that also capture the potentials of digitality in advanced age.</p>