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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 A13.

Adult child availability by demographic and socioeconomic status among adults 55+ with dementia (Sample: Adults 55+ with dementia and at least one ADL limitation; 3,390 persons and 5,686 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 miles (%) At least 10 one within 10 miles (%) At least one coresident (%)

Overall 5,686 11.0 13.8 24.8 50.5 15.3 73.6 28.0 61.0 22.4 43.0 23.6
Gender
 Men 1,889 11.8 11.9 23.5 52.7 16.4 71.7 34.2 53.9 28.1 41.2 18.8
 Women 3,797 10.6 14.7 25.4 49.3 14.8 74.6 24.8 64.6 19.4 44.0 26.0
Age
 55–64 403 13.7 12.5 23.8 50.0 18.5 67.7 30.9 55.4 21.2 41.9 23.2
 65–74 954 9.5 11.1 25.8 53.5 14.7 75.8 35.6 54.9 28.4 37.4 24.6
 75–84 1,834 8.8 12.5 22.9 55.7 13.8 77.5 34.2 57.0 21.4 44.9 24.9
 85+ 2,495 12.7 16.1 26.0 45.1 16.1 71.2 19.3 68.0 20.9 44.1 22.3
Race/Ethnicity
 NH White 3,447 10.1 14.8 28.2 46.9 16.0 73.9 30.9 59.0 25.2 46.3 18.4
 NH Black 1,324 14.3 12.8 16.5 56.3 13.9 71.8 19.6 66.1 17.0 36.5 32.2
 NH Others 148 11.0 15.7 23.0 50.3 21.1 67.9 26.9 62.1 17.6 36.5 34.9
 Hispanic 765 11.4 8.8 17.6 62.2 12.2 76.4 23.8 64.8 15.3 35.4 37.9

Education
 <12 3,132 11.1 12.6 19.1 57.2 14.5 74.4 21.9 67.0 21.0 41.3 26.6
 12 1,420 11.1 16.2 30.9 41.8 14.5 74.4 33.6 55.3 22.3 45.3 21.3
 13–15 663 11.3 15.0 26.8 46.9 19.2 69.5 34.5 54.2 20.3 48.0 20.4
 16+ 468 9.4 11.8 36.5 42.3 17.5 73.1 37.8 52.7 33.2 39.6 17.8
Total wealth
 Bottom 25% 1,970 14.3 15.8 20.8 49.2 15.8 70.0 25.8 59.9 22.3 39.3 24.2
 25–50% 1,362 9.3 12.2 21.9 56.7 13.1 77.6 25.1 65.7 21.3 40.3 29.1
 50–75% 1,252 9.8 11.5 27.4 51.3 14.5 75.7 29.0 61.2 20.0 43.3 26.9
 Top 25% 1,102 9.2 14.9 31.2 44.7 18.1 72.7 33.5 57.3 26.2 51.5 13.1

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