Jenkins discusses the use of digital storytelling (DS) with older people within the context of the education of students in Higher Education, who are training to work with older people in health or social work settings. Jenkins draws upon humanistic gerontology and its focus on narrative-based research methods as essential to learning about ageing and the effectiveness of DS to achieve this interdisciplinary approach. She illustrates this through presentation of a case study in Portugal, drawn from the two-year European applied research project Silver Stories in which the benefits of participation in the process and sharing of stories are immediately evident in which the benefits to older people of participation in the process of creating and sharing stories are immediately evident. She also discusses the potential of the digital stories themselves to inform training and research and to influence service provision and policy. [For the complete volume, "Digital Storytelling in Higher Education: International Perspectives. Digital Education and Learning," see ED613403.]