| MPAI-4 Abilities Items | Description |
| Mobility | Problems walking or moving; balance problems that interfere with moving about |
| Use of hands | Impaired strength or coordination one or both hands |
| Vision | Problems seeing; double vision; eye, brain, or nerve injuries that interfere with seeing |
| Audition | Problems hearing; ringing in the ears |
| Dizziness | Feeling unsteady, dizzy, light-headed |
| Motor speech | Abnormal clearness or rate of speech; stuttering |
| Verbal communication | Problems expressing or understanding language |
| Nonverbal communication | Restricted or unusual gestures or facial expression; talking too much or not enough; missing nonverbal cues from others |
| Attention/concentration | Problems ignoring distractions, shifting attention, keeping more than one thing in mind at a time |
| Memory | Problems learning and recalling new information |
| Fund of Information | Problems remembering information learned in school or on the job; difficulty remembering information about self and family from years ago |
| Novel problem solving | Problems thinking up solutions or picking the best solution to new problems |
| Visuospatial abilities | Problems drawing, assembling things, route-finding, being visually aware on both the left and the right sides |