I'm an only child and I live far away from my mom. I'm already stressing about long-term care as she gets older.

An only child living in Italy expresses stress about caring for her 70-year-old mother in the U.S. as she ages, despite their differing values and the mother's lack of retirement plans. The mother works 40-50 hours weekly, resists lifestyle changes, and jokes about being 'floated out to sea' when older, complicating long-distance caregiving.