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This article examines the origins, development and meaning of women's mobilisation around problems of food scarcity and supply during the Occupation. Memoirs, fiction and testimony of the war years show that food issues dominated the daily life of French men and women. Police and protesters saw the struggle for bread as distinctly a women's issue, but for different sets of reasons. How did defining food protest as 'female' serve the political agenda of the Vichy authorities on the one hand, and that of the French Communist activists on the other? Particular attention will be paid to the summer of 1942 when the collaborationist press reported that women's demonstrations for food constituted a 'second front'. Taris a froid Paris a faim, Paris ne mange plus de marrons dans la rue' (Paul Eluard, 'Courage', 1943)

Ageing is a universal asynchronic and heterogeneous process which induces a series of changes in the organisms along the time. In addition, ageing becomes senescence when it induces structural and physiological changes which significantly reduce the body homeostatic capability making the organism vulnerable and frail. Besides, frailty detecting tools have been described such as frailty phenotype score, frailty clinical scale, or gait test. Since elderly population is heterogeneous, it seems that to use a unique conventional dialysis (hemo or peritoneal) prescription would not be adequate in this group. Thus, different sort of dialytic schedules could be proposed for prescribing dialysis to elderly patients, basing these alternatives, on the patient´s functional status, residual diuresis and general prognosis. From this perspective at least four sorts of dialytic programs can be delineated for this group: conventional, incremental, functional and palliative dialysis. In conclusion: Frailty phenotype evaluation allows indentifying elderly subgroups, which could be dialyzed by applying different dialytic programs.

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