Hypertension is a degenerative disease that affects nearly 25% of the population around the world today and is a risk factor of cardiovascular disease. Geriatric (elderly) in Indonesia is a group of residents that become the focus of attention because of the number of elderly is increase, and brought variety of health problems. Hypertension can be treated with pharmacological treatment and lifestyle improvements with the correct knowledge based. Hypertension will be a problem if elderly people are not guided and equipped with proper knowledge regarding the health of hypertension.SimakBaca secara fonetik The purpose of this activity is to improve knowledge and attitudes about hypertension of rural elderly in Gantungan Makamhaji Kartasura Sukoharjo. Health education about hypertension is given by lectures and discussion method. Evaluation used questionnaire that consist of 35 questions, which was considered one if the answer is correct and zero if the answer is incorrect using pre-test and post-test about hypertension The results obtained by descriptive mean. There is an increasing value of knowledge average about hypertension after administration of education from 4.46 to 13.97 and attitudes average about hypertension from 3.49 to 9.90 Based on the result, health education institutions should cooperate with health service institutions to give information about hypertension through periodic health education. And government health institutions should expand health education focusing on elderly through Posyandu Lansia.

Background: Management of medical treatment is a very complex multi-disciplinary process with many stages. During patient care at Universitas Gadjah Mada Academic Hospital (UGM Academic Hospital) incidents involving patient safety either go unreported or are accidentally found. According to some public health research only about 10-20% of incidents were reported. The purpose of this research aimed to provide data to the management about the level of patient safety and make recommendations to improve service quality, especially to reduce injury and increase patient safety.Methods: Our study was conducted by doing a review of patient medical records of hospitalized adults (n = 60) treated in September 2015 to detect trigger and adverse events using the IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events. Group Cares was designed to reflect the adverse events that occurred anywhere in UGM Academic Hopitaltal so that all samples should be reviewed by both modules. All three remaining modules were used if necessary depending on the unit where patients were treated. Technical analysis used in this research was descriptive statistics.Results: The study found 69 incidents / triggers that occurred in 27 patients (n = 60) consisting of 47 incidents in the treatment group, 16 incidents in the surgery group, one incident in intensive care, and 5 incidents at the Emergency Department. Based on the level of injury, the incidents which happened demanded extended day care, requiring more intervention and assistance of disability. No cases of death were reported due to the incidents.Conclusions: The incidence found in all categories according to the modules with the highest incidence was the incidence of treatment and the smallest was in intensive care. Most incidents resulted in extending the duration of treatment and require more intervention. No fatal cases were reported to have resulted in the studied sample.