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This article relies on the remobilization of results of comprehensive surveys conducted in peri-urban spaces in the Île-de-France region between 2007 and 2013. It considers the living conditions of ageing households and their adjustments to cope with ageing. It questions whether or not these groups remain in contexts considered unsuitable for them. A first point relates to current trends of residential strategies in later life: mobility, immobility, and attachment to the individual house. We then examine the main reshaping of the ways of living of the peri-urban retirees interviewed. This means addressing the reconfiguration of spatialities as well as sociabilities, which differ according to residential contexts, family and social trajectories, and the level of autonomy. The study reveals the tactics and strategies implemented by ageing households to keep control of their daily lives and to remain as long as possible in these peri-urban environments. Remaining at home is especially feasible because these spaces, in the Paris area, are becoming more equipped and more structured. In return, anchored and involved locally, these retirees, although different in their ways of life, participate in the reconfiguration of peri-urban territories in the Île-de-France region and in the adaptation of local public policies in accordance with the expectations and needs of seniors.