My new book, Living to 110 on a Scorching Planet: A Senior’s Guide to Staying Safe, Healthy, and Independent in a Hotter World, is free on Kindle from Saturday, October 17 through Wednesday, October 21 (Pacific time).
Get it free here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLBJGCTV
No Kindle device is needed. The free Kindle app works on any phone, tablet, or computer.
Why I wrote it
I run an adult day-service center in Kawasaki, Japan, and every summer I watch the same thing happen. Someone who walked in easily in May needs a cane by the end of August. They did not fall and they were not ill. They were too hot to eat, too hot to sleep, and too hot to go outside, and two weeks of that is enough to take the legs out from under an eighty-year-old body.
In the summer of 2025, more than 100,000 people in Japan were taken to the hospital with heatstroke. Nearly six in ten were over 65, and the most common place they collapsed was their own home. Japan is the oldest society in the world, so we are living through the hotter future a few years ahead of everyone else. This book is what I have learned from that, written for people over 65 and the families who worry about them.
What is inside
The book is not about the planet. It is about the next thirty years of your life, and how to put a system, and people, between you and the heat. It covers a 30-year temperature timeline you fill in with your own age, why older bodies stop feeling heat and thirst, the four reasons people die at home with the air conditioner switched off, how to read a hazard map and when to leave, bedroom temperature and hydration by the clock, three tiers of blackout preparation, a week of food you can chew, and how to build an emergency network by the age of 75. Every chapter ends with questions readers ask, a short section to hand to your adult children, and a checklist for your own home.
A request
If you download the book, I would be grateful for an honest review on Amazon, even a sentence or two. Reviews are what let a book from a small Japanese care center reach readers in Phoenix, Houston, or Athens who need it. And if you know someone over 65 who lives alone, please send them the link while it is free.
The free period ends at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on Wednesday, October 21. After that the book returns to $4.99, and it remains free to read with Kindle Unlimited.
Kiyotaka Hasegawa
Certified care worker and day-service manager, Kawasaki, Japan
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