While I agree with jjose that the best person to teach the transfer to the patient is a physio, it is important for the caregiver to know how to do the transfer so that she can provide the help needed in an safe way for her and her father. So the ideal situation would be for the physio to teach the patient in the home setting if he was able to do transfers in a physio clinic, but has not been able to do them at home. Hopefully nuhag can get the help she needs at home in terms of transfer training and/or technical aids to make the job of helping her father easier, and to avoid caregiver overload or burnout, but if this is not possible, or in the meantime, perhaps the steps I outlined may help. Without actually physically evaluating her father it is impossible to determine the real nature of the problem, so obviously a professional "on site" would be the only one to actually understand what the problem is. In the meantime, perhaps a few of the suggestions would help, but I encourage nuhag if it is at all possible to see if a physio can come to her home to analyze the transfer process and make the necessary suggestions, be they for how the transfer is done, or for technical aids to make the process easier.