Ageing in changing community contexts: Cross-border perspectives from rural Ireland and Northern Ireland

► We explore how changing place contexts shape community lives of rural older people. ► Community changes influenced experiences with services, social relations and cohesion. ► The concern given to these issues depended on people's connection to their place. ► Older adults related in different ways to these sites, based on their life-histories. ► Rural ageing is not uniform and not derived from generic experiences in static places.