Chapter 6 162 Table 3. Gender stereotypes in illness experiences of men and women with PD Gender Stereotype or Norm Expressed by men/ women Level(s) of social manifestation Exemplar Quotes People with PD are old men Men and Women Ideological / Interpersonal “I couldn’t identify well with the diagnosis at all,[…] I saw an eighty-year-old man who was walking with difficulty. So, I thought, how can I have it? And that still causes a little bit of yes, not being able to identify with the fact that I also have it. And that it is completely normal for women to get it too, of course.” [Woman] “When they said to me ‘you have Parkinson’s’, then you already have an image that is this old, deficient man who walks all bent over and indeed can’t do anything anymore and has to sit in a chair. That’s ultimately, that’s kind of your vision of the future.” [Man] “It is also because it is confirmed over and over again. Other people, including girlfriends, say to you “hey, how can that be, that’s an old man’s disease. And well, then you have to explain it, and it’s actually very strange to have to explain it. So yeah, then I feel like I’m one zero behind or something and then I get the feeling it’s not about me.” [Woman] “When I tell someone for the first time, they say, but you’re not that old yet. I do think that’s a stereotypical comment. That it’s really an old age disease and that you’re already.... SP1* So you must be an older man? SPR* Yes. SPR Who shakes a lot” [Men]
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