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Takeiah Sadler

AC-BC, CADDCT, CDP
VP of Resident Experience
Sinceri Senior Living

Takeiah Sadler, AC-BC, CADDCT, CDP, is the Vice President of Resident Experience for Sinceri Senior Living, where she leads resident engagement, life enrichment, and memory care strategies across a multi-state portfolio of senior living communities. With more than a decade of senior living leadership experience, she partners with operational, clinical, and community leaders to create resident-centered experiences that enhance quality of life, strengthen community culture, and support operational excellence. A national speaker and educator, Takeiah specializes in leadership development, dementia education, and helping senior living teams translate engagement into meaningful outcomes for residents, families, and organizations.

2027 Sessions

The Early Warning System: Connecting Resident Experience and Clinical Wellness to Identify Risk Earlier

Most resident decline doesn't happen suddenly. Early indicators often emerge weeks or months before a significant health event. Yet these signals frequently exist across disconnected departments and systems, making them difficult to recognize in a timely manner.


This session will explore how senior living organizations can adopt a whole-person wellness approach to identify risk earlier, intervene more effectively, and improve resident outcomes. Clinical and resident experience leaders will share how their organization is breaking down silos between clinical care, resident experience, and operations to create a more comprehensive understanding of resident well-being. They will discuss how changes in engagement, routines, behaviors, clinical and wellness indicators, and staff observations can reveal emerging concerns-and how interoperability within the technology ecosystem can bring diverse data sources together to support proactive decision-making.


Importantly, identifying early signals is only valuable if organizations know how to respond. Attendees will learn practical strategies for identifying residents at risk for isolation, disengagement, or decline; synthesizing whole-person wellness insights across departments; and implementing targeted, personalized interventions that align teams around shared wellness goals, support resident well-being, and reduce avoidable decline. As resident acuity rises and expectations for personalized care continue to grow, organizations that can recognize and act on early indicators of change will be better positioned to improve resident stability, support longer well-being trajectories, strengthen quality outcomes, and reduce the need for reactive interventions.

Co-Presenter

Moderator

Tuesday, May 25 1:30–2:15 PM
Clinical Wellness
Faculty

Angie Fleenor

DNP, APRN, FNP-BC
Chief Clinical Officer
Sinceri Senior Living

Angie Fleenor, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, is Chief Clinical Officer at Sinceri Senior Living, where she oversees the clinical, risk & quality, and resident experience departments. A nurse practitioner by training, she brings a clinician's lens to executive decision-making and is a vocal advocate for nursing leadership in senior living. Overseeing both clinical and resident experience functions, Angie works to break down departmental silos, connect clinical, wellness, and engagement data, and identify early signals of resident decline. She holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice and is board-certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner.

Faculty

Takeiah Sadler

AC-BC, CADDCT, CDP
VP of Resident Experience
Sinceri Senior Living

Takeiah Sadler, AC-BC, CADDCT, CDP, is the Vice President of Resident Experience for Sinceri Senior Living, where she leads resident engagement, life enrichment, and memory care strategies across a multi-state portfolio of senior living communities. With more than a decade of senior living leadership experience, she partners with operational, clinical, and community leaders to create resident-centered experiences that enhance quality of life, strengthen community culture, and support operational excellence. A national speaker and educator, Takeiah specializes in leadership development, dementia education, and helping senior living teams translate engagement into meaningful outcomes for residents, families, and organizations.

Faculty

Lydia Nguyen

PhD
Principal Researcher
LifeLoop

Lydia Nguyen, PhD, is the Principal Researcher at LifeLoop. She earned her doctorate in Neuroscience from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she specialized in aging cognitive neuroscience and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as the role of technology in supporting aging populations. At LifeLoop, Lydia leads collaborative research initiatives to measure the impact of technology on residents, families, and staff. Her work helps translate day-to-day experiences into meaningful data, highlighting the value that LifeLoop and its partners bring to senior living. She was recently recognized as a 2025 Future Leader in Senior Housing & Senior Living by WTWH Healthcare.
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