The gap no one talks about
When someone is diagnosed with early Alzheimer's or dementia, the advice is almost always the same.
Get your affairs in order. Name a power of attorney. Talk to your family.
Good advice. Necessary advice. But there's a conversation that almost never happens.
Nobody says: capture your voice while it's fully yours.
Not your wishes. Not your instructions. Your voice. How you think about things. What trade-offs you've made and why. What you'd want the people you love to understand about you — not just what you owned, but who you were.
Here's what I keep coming back to: Capacity doesn't disappear overnight. It fades.
Which means there is often a window, a real one, where clarity still exists and someone could help you use it. Where you could sit down and give your family something they'll return to for the rest of their lives.
Almost no one does.
Not because they don't want to. Because nobody offered.
Financial planning prepares for incapacity.
LegacyNex preserves perspective.
Both are needed. Only one is being talked about.
If you know someone navigating this, or if you're the kind of person who plans ahead, I'd love to talk.