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Social support shapes the health of older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), and marital status is linked to ADRD risk and all‐cause mortality. During the Covid‐19 pandemic, older adults with ADRD may have been particularly reliant on key social ties such as spouses. We estimated excess ADRD mortality by marital status among older Californians during the pandemic.

Using California monthly mortality data from January 2016 to February 2020, we built autoregressive integrated moving average time series models to estimate the number of expected deaths with ADRD as a final or contributing cause between March 2020 and December 2022, stratified by marital status and age group. We obtained population estimates from the US Census’ American Community Survey. We calculated cumulative and monthly excess deaths per 100,000 living individuals and …