Imagine a place with more than 20 interactive booths.

Free health screenings and even an Ask the Duck session.

All to help you keep your brain healthy.

That was the scene in Lexington during the Mind Matter Summit.

More about this and tonight's look at medical news.

As we age, there are many different medical conditions that we can develop, and many of them can lead to problems with memory and thinking and what we know about your brain function and its abilities is that keeping that in shape is critically important.

And the most critically important thing you can do to maintain your independence and quality of life.

So the Mind Matters Health Summit is designed to really give folks who live in our community the tools that they need to achieve successful brain aging right now, in the concluding plenary session, we're talking about technology.

How can one use their smartphone?

How can one use automated pill dispensers, to really keep themselves independent, safe and functioning in the healthiest way possible?

I talked a little bit about the interaction between technology use and cognition as we age.

There's been a lot of exciting research to come out recently showing a positive relationship between the two.

One thing that we want to be mindful of is not over relying on technology and not critically applying our thinking skills.

So when we're doing something like setting a calendar reminder for an appointment that we want to keep in three weeks, for example, it's really important to think deeply about that information, really make connections rather than just putting it out of our brain.

I hope they take away the message that they are empowered.

There are some medical conditions and life situations that we may have less power to influence, but when it comes to brain health, there are things that you can do.

You don't have to reconcile yourself to Alzheimer's because mom or dad came down with it.

You can say, I have learned the tools that are going to help reduce my risk, and I'm going to make it through, and I'm not coming down with that disease.

I think in terms of preserving brain health, it's really important to try to use our brain in new ways, novel ways, as much as we can.

Forming those new connections is really what's going to keep us sharp.

Another thing that came up in my talk is how technology can facilitate social connection.

That's really important as we're aging, to make sure that we're maintaining really high quality relationships with people that we care about that can stave off the effects of loneliness, which can be really detrimental to thinking skills.

As we get older, people tend to sometimes be dismissive of our needs.

If we're having trouble walking now, you're just getting old, having trouble with your memory.

You're just getting old.

And here we can really demonstrate how vibrant our aging community is.

We're not getting old.

We're not giving up everything.

We're facing great challenges and we're overcoming them.

We're winning.

And the turnout today and the brain health engagement is proof in the pudding that, our aging population is here to stay, and they're only getting stronger.