jeffrey kay has been analyzing the data for more than 450 households since 2004. these dots represent time spent in bed, the bathroom, on the computer, or phone. they're all clues indicating areas of possible decline. >> good to see you, honey. >> reporter: the ultimate goal? arming doctors and care givers with information a patient may not mention or remember. >> knowing as early as possible what's happening and what the options might be becomes very important. >> reporter: with a rapidly growing older population, in home monitoring technology might be able to delay hospitalization and reduce health care costs. >> the majority are willing to give up a little bit of privacy in order to stay independent in their homes if that's what it means in terms of using technology. >> technology can be as simple and inexpensive as skyper e-mail. that robot you saw costs about $7,000. sometimes really wired houses can run up into the hundreds of thousands, but increasingly, insurance companies are willing to pay for some of those costs because it's cheaper to keep an older, ac

these detainees should remain in prison but this story also follows another one that my colleague jeffrey kay and i co-wrote just a couple of months ago again from a freedom of information act request document showing the guidebook to false confessions how this type of interrogation or how the the techniques that were used would ultimately simply produce false confessions so it would appear that they weren't even interested in whatever intelligence they were. trying to obtain and i think that this report certainly shows that you know there is a cruel aspect to interrogating detainees who are gravely ill mentally very interesting another controversial layer to the kinds of interrogation practices going on in these military presence jason thanks so much for coming on the show appreciate it that was jason leopold lead investigative reporter for truthout dot org. well that's going to do it for the news for this hour but stay tuned for a special edition of capital account today house floor unless there is taking the ball by the horns wall street that is she infiltrated the new york stock exchange