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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 A7.

Spousal availability by demographic and socioeconomic status among adults with dementia, without imputation for family availability measures (Sample: Adults 55+ with dementia; 4,955 persons and 9,365 person-year observations)

Spouse present
Spouse’s ADL/IADL status
Spouse’s working status
N. of obs No spouse (%) No limitation (%) At least one limitation (%) Not working full-time (%) Working full-time (%)

Overall 9,359 62.3 23.3 12.9 33.7 3.5
Gender
 Men 3,506 41.2 37.7 20.1 52.6 5.8
 Women 5,853 75.2 14.4 8.4 22.2 2.1
Age
 55–64 981 49.8 34.9 13.9 34.8 14.6
 65–74 1,843 49.3 35.2 13.8 43.8 6.4
 75–84 3,182 58.0 26.4 13.9 40.6 1.0
 85+ 3,353 78.7 9.2 10.9 20.9 0.1
Race/Ethnicity
 NH White 5,233 60.9 24.4 13.3 35.7 3.1
 NH Black 2,498 70.6 17.8 10.2 24.4 4.2
 NH Others 231 61.0 23.9 11.7 32.8 4.7
 Hispanic 1,388 57.7 25.5 14.9 37.5 4.2

Education
 <12 5,343 65.5 20.6 12.6 31.4 2.6
 12 2,328 62.8 23.7 11.7 33.0 3.8
 13–15 995 57.7 26.8 13.7 36.4 5.6
 16+ 679 46.2 35.2 17.3 47.4 5.9
Total wealth
 Bottom 25% 2,876 83.2 8.0 7.8 14.8 1.6
 25–50% 2,284 65.2 20.1 13.4 31.7 2.7
 50–75% 2,253 52.6 29.7 16.2 42.6 4.4
 Top 25% 1,946 43.3 39.6 15.2 50.3 5.9

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