Every weekend, Francine Holland, armed with bags of groceries, travels from her home in Copiague into Manhattan to care for her 86-year-old mother, who has dementia.

"It's a labor of love," said Holland, who on weekends shops, cooks, bathes her mother and manages her mother's bills and pays for a live-in aide to care for her during the week. "I do everything."

Holland is not the only one.

A new report from AARP finds that 26% of adults in New York — or more than 4 million people — are family caregivers, providing largely unpaid and unsupported care to older parents, spouses and other loved ones. While most care for an adult, 13% of family caregivers provide services for a child with complex medical conditions or disabilities, the survey found.

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