What if ageing well requires us to rethink who and what counts? Drawing on French anthropologist Bruno Latour and Actor–Network Theory (ANT), this presentation provides a provocative proposition: the benefits of co‑creation with older people can be put at risk when co-creation projects privilege human agency while neglecting the dense networks of non‑human actors that sustain practice across time. Using a co‑created gardening initiative with care home residents as a case study, I argue that developing programmes that recognise experienced older gardeners as the experts and privilege their aspirations, is not only about inclusion or consultation. Rather, it demands the addition of symmetry: treating soil, tools, seasonal cycles, buildings, plants, weather and routines as equal participants in collective life. ANT offered a disciplined practice of seeing every element—human and non‑human—required for a sustainable gardening system, precisely to avoid omissions that can lead ageing‑in‑place initiatives to falter once key people move on or changes are made without consideration to the entirety of actors. This idea challenges assumptions embedded in “activation” models and reframes humans and non-humans as equally important. Participants will be able to consider adding practices of 'tracing' entire networks co‑created in projects seeking to develop sustainable place‑based initiatives that enable flourishing in later life. To recognise every single thing that is required increases the likelihood that they become self‑reliant, adaptive and capable of flourishing even amid inevitable change—a useful move to increase positive outcomes in the Ageing Revolution.