Family Spillovers of Dementia

Onur Altindag, Jane Greve and Yulya Truskinovsky

No 34635, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We use population-wide administrative data from Denmark and an event-study design spanning nearly two decades to examine the impact of having a parent with dementia on adult children’s labor market, physical health, and mental health outcomes. We find no meaningful effects on labor supply, earnings, or physical health care use. In contrast, mental health care use increases substantially, driven by daughters, beginning five years before a parent’s dementia-related death, peaking around the time of death, and converging to the counterfactual trend over seven years. Results suggest that robust long-term care policy can largely insulate adult children economically from parental dementia, but mental health spillovers persist, spurring nearly a decade of elevated use.

JEL-codes: D13 I12 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-01
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