From the rhetoric of active ageing to inclusive infrastructure

inclusion and inequality, and with welfare regimes as macro-contexts that shape opportunities. It then relocates participation to the everyday materialities of proximity and walkability, showing how the city’s micro-infrastructures can support autonomy or accelerate withdrawal. From there, the paper moves on to the digitalization of welfare and healthcare services as a legal problem: when access to rights is mediated by platforms, interfaces, and algorithms, exclusion can become systemic even in the absence of an explicit discriminatory intent.