Worrying about my ageing parents' future

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I'm still young, but I feel that my parents are getting older. Since they've married late, they're much older than other parents of people my age. I'm worried about their future, and how I'm going to care for them once they get too old. My sister is seeing someone now, and I believe she's going to get married a few years from now. I'm still single. Sometimes, I think about not marrying at all so that I can take care of my parents. I don't have any other siblings except my twin sister. I wish that I have more siblings. This way, all of us could help each other care for our parents. There's one family who has four daughters. The youngest daughter didn't want to get married. Eventually, she met a nice guy and got married. Her oldest sister had been married many years earlier and now that her children are all grown up, she could care for their parents as the youngest starts to build a family. It scares me when I think about the future. I believe that once you've married, you have to leave your parents and live with your new family (as living with parents/in-laws could make things complicated). I can't imagine leaving my parents. Sending them to a nursing home is not an option. It's highly frowned upon in my culture.