Find a retirement residence you can trust.
The Vitrine Retirement Index is a free, independent ranking of every licensed retirement residence in Canada, weighted on inspection and enforcement history. Coverage is earned by licence, never bought by operators.
See what we publishWhy we exist
Canadian families searching for a retirement residence face a market where the leading directories list only the operators who pay to appear. Absence from those directories signals non-payment, not non-existence, and families cannot tell the difference. No Canadian organization currently publishes independent, comparative quality data on private-pay retirement residences.
At the same time, the national data collection that once tracked rents, vacancies, and the size of the seniors housing market has been discontinued, leaving families, operators, and the institutions that finance them without a reliable public picture of the sector.
How we stay independent
The usefulness of a ranking depends entirely on who paid for it. No operator can purchase placement, ranking position, or inclusion in any form. The consumer layer is never paywalled, the methodology says publicly what each score rests on, and the free service is funded by licensing aggregated market data to institutions, not by the operators we rank. See how we are funded.