In seeking to support healthy ageing, designers have struggled to reduce their assumptions and biases towards older adults, interpret the worlds of later life through unfiltered imagery, engage with stigmas, and ultimately diminish the technologies they construct. Towards this, I proposition ‘resolution’ as a concept indicative of the level of detail and fidelity that representations of later life have. Thhis subject is explored through a cultural probe study that investigated the sentiments of several older Australians on social technologies.