There is a burgeoning literature on the impact of urban contexts on exclusion and participation in later life. Despite this, how urbanised spatial aspects of exclusion evolve over the life course for older people is poorly understood. This paper draws on a voice-led qualitative design, to explore the role of life-course relationships with place in shaping the exclusionary experiences of older adults in diverse urban neighbourhoods. Involving 70 older people in six neighbourhoods across Dublin, Limerick and Galway cities, data was collected through: participatory focus groups; life-course interviews; go-along interviews, and older adult researcher projects. Implicating the intertwined trajectories of older adults and the urban settings that they reside within, findings illustrate that the emergence and influence of exclusionary mechanisms is a function of the life and residential pathways of individuals, and the development path of the neighbourhood itself. Discussion focuses on key life-course transitions and neighbourhood developmental processes.
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