MirianaSze: The services provided in most private care homes aren't funded by the government. I have a disabled relative in one of these homes who pays all her own costs, covering housing, food and medical services. She obtains her drugs through the provincial health plan's "Trillium" system, which features high co-payments, as she would do were she living at home. Her pension covers only part of these costs and she funds the balance from her diminishing savings. Her complex doesn't admit subsidized residents. It is one of the seemingly dirty little secrets of the Canadian health care system (at least in Ontario, as I don't know about the situation in other provinces) that the costs of caring for seniors and the disabled are being downloaded to vulnerable individuals (and their families), who increasingly must purchase these services on their own in private market settings.