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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2021 Sep;40(9):1359–1367. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00280

Appendix Exhibit A10.

Adult child availability by demographic and socioeconomic status among adults 55+ with dementia, (Sample: Adults 55+ with dementia, dropping the adults with mismatched information on the number of children; 4,397 persons and 8,269 person-year observations)

Adult child present
N. of adult children
Have an adult daughter
Have a non-full-time-working adult child
Proximity to adult children
N. of obs No adult child (%) One (%) Two (%) Three or more (%) No (%) Yes (%) No (%) Yes (%) None within 10 miles (%) At least one within 10 miles (%) At least one coresident (%)

Overall 8,269 3.3 14.8 26.5 55.4 16.8 79.9 32.4 64.4 24.6 45.9 26.2
Gender
 Men 3,082 4.9 13.0 26.3 55.8 18.0 77.1 37.8 57.3 31.1 43.1 20.8
 Women 5,187 2.3 15.9 26.6 55.2 16.1 81.7 29.1 68.6 20.7 47.5 29.4
Age
 55–64 837 4.7 15.9 25.8 53.6 21.9 73.4 33.4 61.8 24.8 39.0 31.4
 65–74 1,641 2.9 10.7 27.5 58.9 15.1 82.0 39.4 57.7 28.6 41.7 26.8
 75–84 2,883 2.8 13.2 24.5 59.5 14.8 82.5 37.4 59.9 23.1 48.5 25.7
 85 + 2,908 3.5 18.3 28.3 50.0 17.9 78.6 22.9 73.7 23.9 48.1 24.5
Race/Ethnicity
 NH White 4,692 2.9 15.0 31.0 51.1 18.1 79.0 35.8 61.3 27.4 49.7 19.9
 NH Black 2,123 5.1 16.1 17.8 61.1 13.8 81.1 25.6 69.3 21.0 39.8 34.1
 NH Others 203 1.1 20.1 28.1 50.6 24.3 74.6 33.6 65.2 21.8 37.7 39.4
 Hispanic 1,242 3.1 10.7 16.5 69.7 12.9 84.0 24.7 72.1 16.7 37.5 42.7

Education
 <12 4,669 2.7 14.2 20.3 62.8 15.4 81.8 25.9 71.3 22.5 44.9 29.9
 12 2,075 3.3 16.9 33.4 46.5 17.7 79.0 38.5 58.2 24.5 49.7 22.5
 13–15 894 4.0 14.7 31.3 50.1 19.7 76.3 39.1 56.9 26.9 46.4 22.7
 16+ 626 5.5 12.4 37.5 44.5 18.7 75.8 44.5 50.0 35.5 39.3 19.6
Total wealth
 Bottom 25% 2,455 4.2 17.2 22.6 56.0 17.4 78.5 29.0 66.9 24.3 42.8 28.7
 25–50% 2,023 3.0 13.9 22.6 60.5 14.2 82.8 27.9 69.1 22.4 41.3 33.2
 50–75% 2,029 3.0 12.6 27.8 56.7 16.4 80.7 33.9 63.1 23.2 47.2 26.6
 Top 25% 1,762 2.8 15.2 33.9 48.2 19.3 77.9 39.4 57.9 28.9 52.8 15.5

Source. Author’s analysis of data from the 2002–2014 Health and Retirement Study.