Resident Safety Roundtable: Knowing What’s Normal: Using Resident Baselines to Support Independence, Safety, and Individual Health Journeys

Senior living leaders face an ongoing challenge of protecting resident safety while preserving independence, autonomy, and personal choice. As residents' needs and routines evolve, recognizing meaningful changes early can help teams respond more effectively without unnecessarily restricting daily life.

Using Kendal at Ithaca as a real-world operator example, this Roundtable will explore how resident-specific baselines, including movement, engagement, sleep, activity, and help requests, can help communities distinguish normal behaviors from emerging risks. Through facilitated discussion, participants will examine when changes should prompt intervention, how technology can support more personalized care, and how to balance proactive awareness with privacy, dignity, and staff workload.