Even caregivers need a little love.
A program to support the city’s “invisible labor force” is getting millions in new money to bolster a Big Apple population over 60 that is expected to explode over the next few years, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday.
The city’s Department for the Aging caregiver program will get a $6.2 million infusion, increasing the program’s budget to $15 million — as part of Adams’ November 2025 financial plan, one of several annual updates to the 2026 city budget.
The boost to the program is slated to support 3,000 additional New Yorkers caring for aging loved ones and bringing the total service to roughly 8,400, NYC Aging Commissioner Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez told The Post.
“One gap that we’re concerned about, not only currently but in the future, is in caregi

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