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Psychiatry"],"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Introduction<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Late-life difficult-to-treat depression (LL-DTD) and dementia frequently coexist in later life, but it remains unclear whether clinical and sociodemographic characteristics, as well as medication exposure patterns, differ across dementia subtypes among older adults with both conditions.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We analysed anonymised electronic health records from a south London catchment area. We included patients aged \u226560 years at first recorded depression diagnosis with a dementia diagnosis. LL-DTD was defined as inadequate response to \u22652 antidepressant trials. Dementia diagnoses were classified as Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD), vascular dementia (VD), mixed AD\/VD, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), or other\/unspecified dementia. Around the index depressive episode, we captured sociodemographics, depressive symptoms, physical comorbidity, and medication indicators. We used multivariate logistic regression to examine cross-sectional correlates distinguishing dementia subtypes (with AD as reference) within the LL-DTD and dementia sample. We conducted stratified analyses comparing non-AD versus AD dementia by the temporal order of dementia and depression diagnoses.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among 890 older adults with LL-DTD and dementia, AD was the most common subtype (33.9%), followed by mixed AD\/VD (22.5%), VD (22.2%), other\/unspecified dementia (15.2%), and DLB (6.2%). Depressive symptom profiles and psychotropic treatment history were broadly similar across subtypes. Compared with AD, VD was associated with greater functional impairment, while greater physical comorbidity burden was more evident in VD and mixed AD\/VD.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Somatic multimorbidity and functional impairment provided the clearest clinical separation between subgroups, while depressive symptom patterns and medication exposure appeared largely non-specific across dementia subtypes. 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