I keep worrying about what will happen to me when I'm old

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Because I'm rather useless and will probably always be in jobs with lower wages, and I'm unlikely to have kids (unless I adopt, to avoid going through pregnancy), I often worry about what will happen to me when I'm old. Who will pay for care for me? I won't get a pension apparently, and by the time I'm 70 I'd still have to work. So what if I get Dementia at around 70, and I live alone and become unable to do things for myself? Will I just be left to starve or die some other way in agony, all alone, and be found as a mummified corpe 10 years later? When I'm old I want to spend my last years of my life being cared for in a home, with lots of other people around to talk to. But I won't have any money to pay for care. I probably won't even have enough money to live anywhere, so I suppose I'll be thrown out on the streets, as a poor, confused, innocent, frightened little old lady.

I know I shouldn't spend my young, healthy, social days being worried sick about this but does every old person have to have money behind them to be able to have care? It's a frightening thought.

I don't worry about stuff like this because I know I would've killed myself far before any of this would happen.

Why would anybody even want to live that long?

Many possibilities

-Because they still have something or someone to live for
-Because they are afraid of death
-Because they still find joy at that age
-Because they believe their time is not up yet
-Other reasons