EXHIBIT 99.5

                        EXTENDICARE HEALTH SERVICES, INC.

                                OFFER TO EXCHANGE

            REGISTERED 6 7/8% SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2014 FOR
 ANY AND ALL OUTSTANDING UNREGISTERED 6 7/8% SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2014


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           THE EXCHANGE OFFER WILL EXPIRE AT 5:00 P.M., NEW YORK CITY
             TIME, ON _________, 2004, UNLESS THE OFFER IS EXTENDED.
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                                                              ____________, 2004

To Our Clients:

         Enclosed for your consideration is a Prospectus, dated _________, 2004
(the "Prospectus"), and the related Letter of Transmittal (the "Letter of
Transmittal"), relating to the offer (the "Exchange Offer") of Extendicare
Health Services, Inc. (the "Company") to exchange its 6 7/8% Senior Subordinated
Notes due 2014 which have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, for all of its outstanding unregistered 6 7/8% Senior Subordinated
Notes due 2014 (the "Old Notes"), upon the terms and subject to the conditions
described in the Prospectus and the Letter of Transmittal. The Exchange Offer is
being made in order to satisfy certain obligations of the Company contained in
the Exchange and Registration Rights Agreement dated April 22, 2004, by and
between the Company, the subsidiary guarantors from time to time party thereto
and the initial purchasers named therein, related to the 6 7/8% Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2014.

         This material is being forwarded to you as the beneficial owner of the
Old Notes held by us for your account but not registered in your name. A tender
of such Old Notes may only be made by us as the holder of record and pursuant to
your instructions.

         Accordingly, we request instructions as to whether you wish us to
tender on your behalf the Old Notes held by us for your account, pursuant to the
terms and conditions set forth in the enclosed Prospectus and Letter of
Transmittal. We urge you to read the Prospectus carefully before instructing us
as to whether or not to tender your Old Notes.

         Your instructions should be forwarded to us as promptly as possible in
order to permit us to tender the Old Notes on your behalf in accordance with the
provisions of the Exchange Offer. The Exchange Offer will expire at 5:00 p.m.,
New York City time, on ________, 2004, unless extended by the Company. Any Old
Notes tendered pursuant to the Exchange Offer may be withdrawn at any time
before the Expiration Date.

         If you wish to have us tender your Old Notes, please instruct us by
completing, executing and returning to us the instruction form enclosed with
this letter. The Letter of Transmittal is furnished to you for information only
and may not be used directly by you to tender Old Notes.

         If we do not receive written instructions in accordance with the
procedures presented in the Prospectus and the Letter of Transmittal we will not
tender any of the outstanding Old Notes on your account.