EXHIBIT 2.
Adult child availability by demographic and socioeconomic status among adults with dementia
| Adult child present |
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| N. of adult children |
Have a non-full-time-working adult child |
Proximity to adult children |
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| N. of obs | No adult child (%) | One or two (%) | Three or more (%) | No (%) | Yes (%) | None within 10 miles (%) | At least one within 10 miles (%) | At least one coresident (%) | |
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| Overall | 9,365 | 11.8 | 37.5 | 50.7 | 29.5 | 58.7 | 22.6 | 41.5 | 24.2 |
| Gender | |||||||||
| Men | 3,507 | 13.6 | 35.5 | 50.9 | 34.4 | 52.0 | 28.4 | 38.8 | 19.2 |
| Women | 5,858 | 10.6 | 38.7 | 50.6 | 26.5 | 62.8 | 19.0 | 43.1 | 27.2 |
| Age | |||||||||
| 55–64 | 981 | 18.0 | 35.8 | 46.2 | 29.1 | 52.9 | 21.3 | 33.7 | 27.0 |
| 65–74 | 1,844 | 9.7 | 36.0 | 54.3 | 37.3 | 53.0 | 27.0 | 38.2 | 25.2 |
| 75–84 | 3,186 | 9.4 | 34.9 | 55.7 | 34.6 | 56.0 | 21.7 | 44.7 | 24.2 |
| 85+ | 3,354 | 12.8 | 41.6 | 45.6 | 20.4 | 66.8 | 21.6 | 43.2 | 22.5 |
| Race/Ethnicity | |||||||||
| NH White | 5,233 | 11.2 | 41.9 | 46.9 | 32.8 | 56.0 | 25.3 | 45.2 | 18.3 |
| NH Black | 2,499 | 14.5 | 30.4 | 55.0 | 23.0 | 62.4 | 18.6 | 35.4 | 31.4 |
| NH Others | 232 | 11.4 | 42.0 | 46.6 | 29.3 | 59.3 | 19.4 | 34.9 | 34.3 |
| Hispanic | 1,392 | 10.6 | 25.8 | 63.6 | 23.3 | 66.1 | 15.6 | 34.0 | 39.8 |
| Education | |||||||||
| <12 years | 5,348 | 11.2 | 31.5 | 57.3 | 23.8 | 65.0 | 20.8 | 40.5 | 27.5 |
| 12 | 2,328 | 12.1 | 45.4 | 42.5 | 35.1 | 52.8 | 22.1 | 44.8 | 21.0 |
| 13–15 | 995 | 11.7 | 41.8 | 46.5 | 35.9 | 52.3 | 25.1 | 42.7 | 20.5 |
| 16+ | 680 | 12.6 | 46.6 | 40.8 | 41.0 | 46.3 | 32.6 | 36.3 | 18.4 |
| Total wealth | |||||||||
| Bottom 25% | 2,880 | 15.2 | 35.1 | 49.7 | 25.5 | 59.3 | 21.5 | 37.8 | 25.6 |
| 25–50% | 2,284 | 11.1 | 33.3 | 55.6 | 25.7 | 63.2 | 20.8 | 37.6 | 30.6 |
| 50–75% | 2,254 | 10.2 | 37.1 | 52.6 | 31.4 | 58.3 | 21.6 | 43.1 | 25.0 |
| Top 25% | 1,947 | 9.8 | 45.6 | 44.6 | 36.7 | 53.5 | 27.0 | 48.6 | 14.6 |
Source. Author’s analysis of data from the 2002–2014 Health and Retirement Study.
Notes. Sample: Adults aged 55+ with dementia; 4,955 persons and 9,365 person-year observations. The estimates of percentages add up to 100% if the percentage of no adult child is added to the sum of all percentages under each panel of child availability on each row. Due to rounding, not all proportions add up to 100% (e.g., 10.6+19.0+43.1+27.2=99.9 for proximity among women).