Practical evaluation tools were proposed for the analysis of Chronic Care Model in order to guide the efforts in improving the quality of chronic disease care and to evaluate changes after the adoption of various measures. The study purpose is to conduct a preliminary analysis for adapting, testing and validating one of this instruments-PACIC: Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care. The qualitative and quantitative analysis and the survey conducted among people aged over 55 years from Iasi and the surrounding villages, tested the instruments reliability and content validity, thus completing the first step for validating RO-PACIC: Romanian Older Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care. Once adapted, the instrument can be used in further research on different groups of chronic diseases or wider geographical areas.