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Description: Refreshing, or the act of briefly foregrounding recently presented but now perceptually absent representations, has been identified as a possible source of age differences in working memory and episodic memory alike. This preregistered study investigated whether the refreshing deficit specifically contributes to the well-known age-related deficit for retrieving episodic associations (e.g., the on-screen locations of arbitrary word pairs, pink – cop), but has no impact on existing semantic associations (e.g., determining the relatedness of word pairs, pink – blue). Healthy younger and older adults judged the relatedness of presented word pairs (e.g., pink – blue) after repeating or refreshing one of the words. Thereafter, a source-monitoring task required participants to make a source judgment for each item recognized as old regarding their original location on the screen and whether they came from a related pair. The data were analyzed using a hierarchical Bayesian implementation of a multinomial model of multidimensional source memory. The results demonstrated no evidence for a refreshing benefit for either the episodic/non-semantic or semantic source memory parameters in either age group. Most interestingly, there was evidence for a null age difference in source memory for semantic associations, in stark contrast to the typical age deficit in source memory for episodic associations. Thus, rather than a refreshing deficit, the study suggests that the nature of the association is most important to episodic memory performance in older age, such that source memory is unimpaired for semantically meaningful information.