Long-term care facilities in Canada exist under three types: public, subsidized and private.
Public and subsidized differ only in their ownership, all other aspects of funding, admission criteria, cost to the individuals are all regulated by the Provincial governments.
[2] Private facilities are completely independent from government ownership and funding, they have their own admission criteria.
[3] The French term centre d'hébergement de soins de longue durée, or CHSLD, is commonly used in both English and French to refer to nursing homes in the predominantly francophone province of Quebec.
[4] In 2020, Canadian film director François Delisle released CHSLD, a short documentary film about his aging mother's stay in a nursing home.