Image Credit: SUBMITTED / Kasey Dell December 13, 2020 - 6:00 PM The family of a well-known former Penticton restaurateur hopes to bring him home from a Saskatoon care home battling an outbreak of COVID-19. Allan Dell, 63, is a former businessman who managed several restaurants in and around the city from the early 1990s to 2009. He was diagnosed with a rare brain disorder known as Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) in 2013, says his daughter Kasey Dell, of Surrey. The disease is a complex condition that affects the brain, causing worsening symptoms. PSP affects the ability to walk normally by impairing balance. It also affects the muscles controlling the eyes, making it difficult to focus and see things clearly.
SASKATOON Julie Dell believed a long-term care home would be the right place for her 63-year-old father who has a degenerative disease called Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) a debilitating brain condition. That changed when his care home became the site of a COVID-19 outbreak last month. “We put him into this home hoping it would be the safest place for him, only to realize that now, it’s the most unsafe place for him to be,” Dell said. Her father, Allan Dell, moved to Luther Special Care Home in Saskatoon at the end of July and now she is trying to get him out.